The Internet Control Message Protocol V6 (ICMPv6) is together the version of the Internet Control Message Protocol used with IPv6. It serves, like already with IPv4 in networks for the change of error and information messages. It however still finds additional to the replacement of the Address Resolution Protocol use in the Neighbor Discovery Protocol.

Even if ICMPv6 on the same network layer is as IPv6, the ICMPv6 message before dispatching is packed up in IPv6-Pakete and sent away in such a way. As minutes number 58 in the NEXT header field of the IPv6-headers is inserted.

ICMPv6 header

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The field type gives to be specified the class of the ICMP message to which with the field code more exactly can. The check sum is used for examining the validity of the ICMPv6-Pakets. Remaining contents of the ICMP message are determined by the respective type. With error messages after the possible additional fields still as much is attached as possible by the error-causing package.

ICMPv6-Typen

The message types are divided into two groups. The first 128 types (0-127), with the Most Significant bit on 0, are error messages. The second 128 types (128-255), with the Most Significant bit on 1, are information messages.

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Check sum

The check sum of a ICMPv6-Pakets is a 16Bit complement-on-one of the sum of the complement-on-one of the entire ICMPv6-Nachricht. Additionally to the message still another IPv6 pseudo header is in front attached. For the computation of the Chechsumme the check total field is set to 0. The pseudo header used for the computation of the check sum looks as next door in the pattern.

This is one of the innovations of ICMPv6 opposite ICMP, where the check sum was computed only over the ICMP headers.

ICMPv6-Verarbeitung

To the processing of ICMPv6-Nachrichten the following rules apply.

• Unknown ICMPv6-Fehlernachrichten must be passed on to the network layer.
• Unknown ICMPv6-Informationsnachrichten must be rejected komentarlos.
• Each error message is attached at the end as much as possible the error-causing package.
• The minutes number for passing on unknown error messages is taken out of the attached original package.
• On the following packages no error messages are dispatched.
  • Error messages
  • Packages at multicast, link level multicast or left level Broadcast addresses with the following exceptions
    • Pack Too Big message
    • Parameter problem message with code 2 - unknown IPv6-Option
• The net may not be flooded with ICMPv6-Fehlernachrichten.

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