ipv6 capabilities

[Will Cladek <william.cladek () nrl navy mil>]

I have been working on setting up IPv6 nmap scans on the network where I work, as we now have IPv6 
deployed.  It appears that in all versions of nmap, all ping scans are done with TCP connects and no 
ICMPv6 requests.  This poses a problem, for instance, when trying to scan a firewall-enabled Windows 
PC which is not known to be up, as the firewall drops port 80 packets, making nmap mistakenly think 
it's down.  I've discovered one workaround to this specific instance is to add port 445 to the list 
of ports done in the ping scan, but there are other instances where simply having the ICMPv6 
capability would be the most useful.  Are there any plans to implement this feature in a future version?

Thanks,
Will Cladek


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