Namespace inet

IPv6NeighbourSolicitation

packet

Neighbour Solicitation Message Format RFC 4861 Section 4.3

Extends

Name	Type	Description
IPv6NDMessage	(unknown -- not in documented files)

Fields

Name	Type	Description
targetAddress	IPv6Address	Additional ICMP fields
sourceLinkLayerAddress	MACAddress	The link-layer address for the sender. MUST NOT be included when the source IP address is the unspecified address. Otherwise, on link layers that have addresses this option MUST be included in multicast solicitations and SHOULD be included in unicast solicitations.

Source code

//
// Neighbour Solicitation Message Format
// RFC 4861 Section 4.3
//
packet IPv6NeighbourSolicitation extends IPv6NDMessage
{
    //Additional ICMP fields
    IPv6Address targetAddress;// MUST NOT be a multicast address.

    //Possible Options

    // The link-layer address for the sender.
    // MUST NOT be included when the source IP address is the unspecified address.
    // Otherwise, on link layers that have addresses this option MUST be included in multicast
    // solicitations and SHOULD be included in unicast solicitations.
    MACAddress sourceLinkLayerAddress;
}

File: src/inet/networklayer/icmpv6/IPv6NDMessage.msg