What is the equivalent of a broadcast ping in ip6?

boltar2003@yahoo.co.uk

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06-10-2009, 01:17 PM

Hi

With IP4 its usually fairly easy to find out all the nodes on a LAN -
you just ping the broadcast address and most will respond. But IP6
doesn't support broadcast addresses, only multicast, so is there some
standard multicast address I could use with ping6 to return all the
IP6 nodes? Or would I have to use another method entirely?

Thanks for any help

B2003

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