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Re: ipv6mon v1.0 released! (IPv6 address monitoring daemon)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fernando Gont)
Thu Sep 13 08:42:30 2012

Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:41:39 -0300
From: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <5051D204.7070806@unfix.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 09/13/2012 09:31 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> ipv6mon employs active probing to discover IPv6 addresses in use, and
>> determine whether such addresses remain active.
> 
> You mean, like what NDPMon has been delivering for several years already:

Does NDPMon do active probing?

If it doesn't, it's not "like what NDPMon has been delivering for
several years already".

For instance, ipv6mon is not meant to be analogous to arpwatch, and is
*not* meant to detect ND attacks.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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