A Solicited-Node multicast address is an IPv6 multicast address valid within the local-link (e.g. an Ethernet segment or a Frame Relay cloud). Every IPv6 host will have at least one such address per interface. Solicited-Node multicast addresses are used in Neighbor Discovery Protocol for obtaining the layer 2 link-layer addresses of other nodes.[1]
A Solicited-Node multicast address is created by taking the last 24 bits of a unicast or anycast address and appending them to the prefix ff02::1:ff00:0/104.[2] It is important to realize that we have taken 104 bits from the address, so that the last byte of the penultimate field 00 is not used in the prefix.
ff00:0000 6x4=24
A host is required to join a Solicited-Node multicast group for each of its configured unicast or anycast addresses.
Example: If we have an interface with the IP address fe80::2aa:ff:fe28:9c5a the associated Solicited-Node multicast address is ff02::1:ff28:9c5a. So we must join to the multicast group represented by this address.
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