Hi Abhijit, I don't know all that much about how it operates however, I think that is what "SLP - Service Location Protocol" is designed for. From RFC2608 -
" The Service Location Protocol provides a scalable framework for the discovery and selection of network services. Using this protocol, computers using the Internet need little or no static configuration of network services for network based applications. This is especially important as computers become more portable, and users less tolerant or able to fulfill the demands of network system administration." I don't know enough about it to say whether it allows for or needs to be updated to support IPv6. On a related note, I'd be curious to know if anybody is updating NetBIOS over IP / CIFS to support IPv6. I'd think that NetBIOS / CIFS file and print sharing probably carries more data on a daily basis than any other IPv4 carried protocol. Maybe that is one cause for people not introducing IPv6 to their enterprise networks - their most commonly used application protocol isn't supported over it. Regards, Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
