I recently received a comment from Gerry Gerofsky about IPv6 network discovery: Hi Terry, I am trying to understand how CiscoWorks, OpenView discovers an IPv6 network? In Ipv4, typically a tool like OpenView CiscoWorks, you feed it a subnet and it goes and checks all the IP's. What is available in...

One of the security factors I’ve heard espoused about IPv6 is that the large address space (128 bits: 64 bits of network and 64 bits of host address) makes it impossible to scan the network for hosts. On initial inspection, this seemed like a reasonable thought. However, when you look at IPv6's use...