D'Albenzio Raffaele wrote:

> Hi John, Peter, All,
> 
> What I mean is not Local Area Network discovery device but "Entire
> Network discovery"
>
> [...]

There is a site local scope all routers multicast address ff05::2, but this 
requires all routers to be configured to listen/answer on that address.

Another possibility is the subnet-router anycast address. But I don't see a 
possibility to figure out hosts. Maybe by reading all routers MAC address 
tables via SNMP?

But I'm surprised that SNMP works. Are there so many routers out there still 
using the "preconfigured" community string "public"?!

4) It performs a new network scanning (or broadcast ping) on the lans
where interfaces
Of the routers are connected to;

Hmm, IPv4 has a subnet directed broadcast, but IFAIK this is seldomly 
supported, so a broadcast ping normally doesn't work and scanning must be 
performed. IPv6 has no equivalent to that broadcast type and - as you 
already mentioned - scanning in LAN's isn't feasable.

Mark.
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