Re: Should we enable IPv6 support by default?

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Gert Doering wrote:

> tcpdump is not actually *doing* any IPv6.

It's doing IPv6 name resolution.

However, as tcpdump no longer depends on the OS to provide headers that 
define the formats of packets, that might reduce the dependency on OS 
IPv6 support.

> (I can do tcpdump to look at "spanning tree" packets.  Or Cisco CDP.  Neither
> is supported in my operating system...)

...but MAC address to name resolution might be.
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