Hi, Spencer, Thanks so much for your feedback! Please find my comments in-line....
On 08/17/2015 05:26 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > COMMENT: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I echo Barry's "nice document", and would support the changes he > suggested. > > I did notice what I believe is a repeated "not" in "it is not not only > the lowest-order byte". Yep. Will fix this. > In this text: > > 3.4.1. Remote IPv6 Network Scanners > > Many address scanning tools such as nmap [nmap2012] do not even > support sweeping an IPv6 address range. > ^ > does this mean "sweeping an IPv6 address range in a remote IPv6 network"? Yes. > I think that's implicit from the section title, but what nmap supports is > clearer in the corresponding text in the next section: > > 3.4.2. Local IPv6 Network Scanners > > There are a variety of publicly-available local IPv6 network > scanners: > > o Current versions of nmap [nmap2012] implement this functionality. This is a different feature: for local scans, you can just "ping" the all-nodes link-local multicast address. But when scanning a remote network, you can only target unicast addresses. And for remote address scans, nmap does not support targeting specific IPv6 address ranges. Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 _______________________________________________ OPSEC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsec
