Microsoft based Operating Systems join the All Nodes On Link Multicast Group as specified by RFC 4291, but that RFC does not mandate that nodes must reply to ICMP echo requests. So while we do not reply to pings to ff02::1, we are also in compliance with the RFC.
Sean Siler IPv6 Program Manager Microsoft blogs.technet.com/ipv6 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TJ Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Network Scanning > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brian McGehee > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:01 PM > To: 'Jeroen Massar'; 'Prasanna Ram Venkatachalam' > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Network Scanning > > "ping6 ff02::1 > > Which should make every single host on a link answer to it." > > > Answer with it's link-local address, which is probably not the goal. Unless autoconfiguration (SLAAC or Stateless DHCPv6) is in use and you can derive the Global from the Link Local ... same EUI64. Without more information, if you are on-link that ping is probably the first/best approach. ... although some OSes break the RFC and don't reply ... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeroen Massar > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:51 PM > To: Prasanna Ram Venkatachalam > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Network Scanning > > Prasanna Ram Venkatachalam wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > With the evolving IPv6 which will be a mandate soon(as far as i > know), > > the network discovery is going to be very difficult. Is there any > > optimized way proposed so far which can be used with IPv6 for network > > discovery?? > > ping6 ff02::1 > > Which should make every single host on a link answer to it. > > For the rest, read the excellent paper by Steven M. Bellovin: > > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/v6worms.pdf > > Greets, > Jeroen /TJ -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
