Hi Raffaele,
Doesn't IPv6 "Neighbor Discovery" do what you want?
-JB-
> D'Albenzio Raffaele wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'trying to find some information about Network Management
> Applications performing network
> discovery. In IPv4 as far as I know, applications use
> broadcast address or IP network scanning (they use SNMP as well).
> I would like know how these applications can discover an IPv6
> network. In fact IPv6 doesn't support broadcast neither
> I can perform a network scanning (2^64 addresses per lan seems to be
> too much ;-).
>
> Is there someone that considered the problem and found a solution for
> that.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Raffaele D'Albenzio.
>
>
>
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