Chapter 5 -- ICMPv6

Chapter 5

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Explain the purpose of ICMPv6 and the structure of all ICMPv6 messages.
• Describe the two types of ICMPv6 messages and how to distinguish them.
• Define the four types of ICMPv6 error messages.
• Explain the two types of ICMPv6 informational messages used for diagnostics.
• Enumerate the common ICMPv4 messages and give their ICMPv6 equivalents.
• Describe the path MTU discovery process for IPv6.