Monitoring IPv6-MAC mappings

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Apr 3 18:01:08 CEST 2013


On 03/04/13 16:41, Fernando Gont wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 12:27 PM, Phil Mayers wrote:
>> On 02/04/13 14:39, Phil Mayers wrote:
>>
>>> optional!) and what products would people suggest / are people using?
>>> Bonus points for sensible handling of link-local addresses and subnets
>>> with >1 router.
>>
>> So it's interesting how many of the suggestions are "packet capture"
>> based, which of course requires access to the subnet layer2. My gut
>> feeling is that this is unworkable in a lot of enterprise networks - do
>> people concur?
>
> What do you mean by "packet capture"-based? That the interface must be
> put nto promiscuous mode? Something else?

That they work by listening for ND packets, which means they must be 
able to listen on each layer2 you want to monitor.


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