Re: Missing IPv6 ICMPv6 Neighbor Solicitation with

[Aaron Turner <synfinatic () gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Paul Sheer <paulsheer () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> With promiscuous mode turned off, libpcap successfully captures
> ARP requests (since they are sent to hw address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff).....
>
> However I would expect the same behavior with IPv6 ICMPv6
> Neighbor Solicitation requests. These requests have the
> destination HW address of 33:33:xx:xx:xx:xx (a multicast
> address). I.e. I would not have thought that it be necessary
> to use promiscuous mode to see the Neighbor Solicitations.

Is an IPv6 address configured on that interface?  If not, there
wouldn't be a need to listen to Neighbor Solicitations.

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