RE: Network Scanning

["Brian McGehee" <doc at tavian.com>]

"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.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ipv6-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of
Jeroen Massar
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:51 PM
To: Prasanna Ram Venkatachalam
Cc: ipv6 at ietf.org
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


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