The Seattle SAGE Group
An Advanced Overview of IPv6
Neighbor Discovery - the new ARP
Allows hosts to discover information about other hosts on the
same link using ICMP packets
- Routers
- Prefix (i.e. subnet and netmask)
- Autoconfiguration
- Address Resolution (i.e. IPv4 ARP)
- ICMP Packet types used in neighbor discovery
- Router solicitation
- Router Advertisement
- Neighbor Solicitation
- Neighbor Advertisement
- Redirect
Note: This does not imply ICMPv6 is not routable!
More info:
rfc1970
