Monitoring IPv6-MAC mappings

[Phil Mayers]

On 03/04/13 17:01, Phil Mayers wrote:

>> 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.
>

I should add: as opposed to asking a device already on the layer2 (the 
router) for the current IPv6 neighbour table(s) via some management 
protocol (such as SNMP, telnet & expect, etc.)