On Wednesday 2012-10-17 14:40, Filip Valder wrote:

>Hi.
>
>Sorry for my misknowledge but I think that it could be an implicit rule.
>Why should a user care of this "IPv6 ARP"? On the other side there are
>surely thousands reasons for NOT doing it...

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery is used to ask the local Ethernet segment for 
the hardware address belonging to a certain IPv6 address, because 
without said HW addr (a.k.a. MAC address), packets cannot be unicasted 
to the desired destination.


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