[mdlug] IPv6 - for MDLUG Group

[Dan Pritts]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> >  2) IP and ICMP. What an IP address is, how the address space is
>> >  distributed (CIDR), how IP addresses are obtained (ARP, DHCP), and how
>
> I still find IPv6 vs. ARP to be a strange thing.
ARP is not used in IPv6 but there is a analogue, NDP (neighbor discovery 
protocol).

 From an end-user perspective they are more or less identical.  They 
work differently on the wire, though; ARP uses ethernet layer 
broadcasts; NDP is a subset of ICMP6 and uses IP6 multicasts.

danno