IPv6 support in IDS/IPS products

[David Williams <dwilliamsd () gmail com>]

Hi list,

I've read that some IDS/IPS vendors can monitor IPv6, but not
completely.  For example, they might be able to alert on the
presence of IPv6 traffic, but they can't actually do full analysis
because they can't parse the headers correctly.  Especially for
things like IPv6 tunneled over IPv4, or IPv6 tunneled over IPv6, etc.

Does anybody have a list of which vendors support what, and to what extent?

thanks,

D

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