Hi group, I am a bit confused about how ping6 works in an ethernet...
Assume I have a simple ethernet lan, with few private subnets, say 192.168.10.0 and 192.168.20.0, connected by a local gateway (G) with interfaces 192.168.10.5 and 192.168.20.5. Now, I have a PC each on these subnets, say with IPV4 addresses (A)192.168.10.15 and (B)192.168.20.15 configured with IPV6 linux, so that each of them have a link local IPV6 addresses starting with fe80: Now when I do a ping6 from A like, 'ping6 -I eth0 link-local-IPV6address-of-B' I get a reply. How does this work? My understanding is that the ICMPV6 datagram containing the echo request of ping program is put in an IPV6 datagram, which is put in an ethernet frame and send down to G. But for G's routing module to understand the destination IPV6 address of B, should there be any special protocol running on it? Sorry if my queston is confusing...Pls direct me to a good explanation of how IPV6 works in an ethernet.. Thanks in advance Regards, Rajesh N -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
