Hi All,
I am writing a program that tests the health of a NIC card. I am creating a NDD socket (Data Link Access) which I will use to send ICMP ECHO packets to a given host. This means that my application has to build the entire packet and I have to create and add the IP/IPv6, ICMP/
6, and MAC headers in my application. I got things to work for IP, but I am stuck with IPv6:
1) How do I find the MAC address for an IPv6 remote host? For IP, I use the SIOCGARP ioctl and get the MAC adress from the ARP cache. But IPv6 does not use ARP. there is something called neighbor discovery for IPv6, but I could not find any programatic interface to use it ..
2) How do I do a broadcast ping in IPv6? In v4, I just put the broadcast address in the destination addr fiend of the IP header and things worked, but what do I do for v6?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jigs