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IPv6 Essentials
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IPv6 Essentials

by Silvia Hagen
July 2002
Beginner
360 pages
11h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ICMPv6 Message Types and Code Values (Chapter 4, RFC 2463)

Table B-7 lists ICMPv6 message types and their type numbers.

Table B-7. ICMPv6 message type numbers

Type

Name

Reference

Chapter

1

2

3

4

Destination Unreachable

Packet Too Big

Time Exceeded

Parameter Problem

RFC 2463

RFC 2463

RFC 2463

RFC 2463

Chapter 4

128

129

Echo Request

Echo Reply

RFC 2463

RFC 2463

Chapter 4

130

131

132

Multicast Listener Query

Multicast Listener Report

Multicast Listener Done

MC-LIST

MC-LIST

MC-LIST

133

134

135

136

137

Router Solicitation

Router Advertisement

Neighbor Solicitation

Neighbor Advertisement

Redirect Message

RFC 2461

RFC 2461

RFC 2461

RFC 2461

RFC 2461

138

139

140

Router Renumbering

ICMP Node Information Query

ICMP Node Information Response

Crawford

Crawford

Crawford

Table B-8 lists the code values of the Destination Unreachable Message (Type 1).

Table B-8. Code values for the Destination Unreachable message (Type 1)

Code

Description

0

No route to destination.

This message is generated if a router cannot forward a packet because it does not have a route in its table for a destination network. This can only happen if the router does not have an entry for a default route.

1

Communication with an administratively prohibited destination.

This type of message can, for example, be sent by a firewall that cannot forward a packet to a host inside the firewall because of a packet filter, or if a node is configured not to accept unauthenticated echo requests. ...

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