Hi John, Peter, All, What I mean is not Local Area Network discovery device but "Entire Network discovery"
I think current IPv4 tools work in the following way: 1) Network Management Station perform a network scanning (or broadcast ping) to discover its local area network; 2) After it has discovered devices on its LAN it performs an SNMP query to find the routers connected to the LAN; 3) If it finds a router it gets (using SNMP) all interfaces information from the router (including IPv4 addresses/netmask configured on the interfaces); 4) It performs a new network scanning (or broadcast ping) on the lans where interfaces Of the routers are connected to; 5) It come back to point 2 and perform the loop n times; This is what I mean and I think I cannot make this type of network discovery In IPv6 in the same way (I don't have broadcast and I cannot perform netowork scanning Per lan). Does It exist an alternative way to perform the same thing in IPv6. Thanks in Advance, Raffaele. -----Original Message----- From: John Bartas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:08 PM To: D'Albenzio Raffaele Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPv6 network discovery 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. > > > > ==================================================================== > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > This message and its attachments are addressed solely to the persons > above and may contain confidential information. If you have received > the message in error, be informed that any use of the content hereof > is prohibited. Please return it immediately to the sender and delete > the message. Should you have any questions, please contact us by > replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you > ==================================================================== -- -JB- ############################################################# H (==)o(==) H John Bartas - Main Propeller head _I_ H InterNiche Technologies Inc. (408) 257-8014 x219 / \ H 1340 S. DeAnza Blvd. Suite 102 ----- H San Jose CA 95129 O O H [EMAIL PROTECTED] " H www.iniche.com \___/ H ==================================================================== CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and its attachments are addressed solely to the persons above and may contain confidential information. If you have received the message in error, be informed that any use of the content hereof is prohibited. Please return it immediately to the sender and delete the message. Should you have any questions, please contact us by replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you ==================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
