Ipv6 Neighbor - Motorola WiNG 5.7.1 System Reference Manual

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Neighbor solicitation messages also verify the availability of a neighbor once its the link layer address is identified. When a
node wants to verify the reachability of a neighbor, the destination address in a neighbor solicitation message is the unicast
address of the neighbor.
A neighbor is interpreted as reachable when an acknowledgment is returned indicating packets have been received and
processed. If packets are reaching the device, they're also reaching the next hop neighbor, providing a confirmation the next
hop is reachable.
To view a controller or service platform's IPv6 neighbor statistics:
1. Select the Statistics
2. Select System
connected access points.
3. Expand the Network
4. Select IPv6 Neighbor.
The

IPv6 Neighbor

IPv6 Address
MAC Address
menu from the Web UI.
from the navigation pane (on the left-hand side of the screen). Expand a RF Domain and select one of its
menu from the left-hand side of the UI.
Figure 13-81 Access Point - Network IPv6 Neighbor screen
screen displays the following:
Lists an IPv6 IP address for neighbor discovery. IPv6 hosts can configure themselves
automatically when connected to an IPv6 network using the neighbor discovery protocol via
CMPv6 router discovery messages. When first connected to a network, a host sends a link-
local router solicitation multicast request for its configuration parameters; routers respond to
such a request with a router advertisement packet that contains Internet Layer configuration
parameters. IPv6 addresses are composed of eight groups of four hexadecimal digits
separated by colons.
Lists the factory encoded hardware MAC address of the neighbor device using an IPv6
formatted IP address as its network identifier.