Re: A patch for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery ping

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 02:44:15PM +0800, Xu Weilin wrote:
> HI all,
> David and I have been working on the branch 'nmap-exp/weilin/nmap-nd' since
> last week and we have implemented IPv6 ND ping over ethernet.
>
> Attached is nd-ping.patch. You can test it by explicitly typing './nmap -6
> -sP -PR. --packet-trace $target_ipv6_addr'. Actually the ND ping feature
> will be activated by default  if the target is in the link-local. (Just like
> ARP ping on IPv4.)
>
> Unfortunately, it don't support IPv6 raw socket right now because the
> send_ipv6_ipproto_raw() couldn't send multicast packets. So please note that
> '-PR --send-ip' won't make sense. (OS itself will try to resolve the
> target's MAC address before it sends a unicast IPv6 packet through raw
> socket.)
>
> Any feedbacks are welcomed and appreciated.

I've looked over the latest version of your branch and don't see any
problems. Please merge the branch and add an entry to CHANGELOG. I will
work with you to add new documentation in refguide.xml.

David Fifield
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