interesting multicast packet

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Thu Mar 20 23:55:02 CET 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 03:22:54PM -0700, Stig Venaas wrote:
> Sorry for this late reply, but it doesn't make much sense that it is
> sent to the all routers address.

It's not. There is the well-known ff02::2 "all routers on local segment"
multicast address, but ff08::2 (::2 in the well-known organization-local
scope ff08::/16 range) ain't officially assigned:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses/ipv6-multicast-addresses.xhtml#ipv6-multicast-addresses-4

This looks like abuse of the well-known range, using unassigned ::2

Best regards,
Daniel

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