Calin's Humble Scanner - User Guide

Scan method IPv6 Ping Broadcast

This method will find all IPv6 enabled hosts that listen to a well-known multicast address.

Compared with an IPv4 ping-sweep this method is more effective because it sends a SINGLE packet. By exploiting a security vulnerability that I have found in the design of the ICMPv6 protocol (see RFC 2463), CHScanner will build and send a single packet and all IPv6 enabled hosts that listen on the specified multicast address will reply.
I have successfully tested this behaviour against the following operating systems:

To specify a multicast address set it as :

For this method the Operating System Mimic technology is NOT implemented yet.
The payload of the packets is in Windows XP style.

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