RE: IPv6 support in IDS/IPS products

["Palmer, Paul (ISSAtlanta)" <PPalmer () iss net>]

I do not know anyone who has prepared a list of which IDS/IPS products
support IPv6 and to what extent. It sounds like a golden opportunity for
NSS to expand on their already world-class testing process and reports
;)

The vendors that support it will likely take this opportunity to chime
in. For our part, ISS supports IPv6. We recognize, report, and protect
against attacks within IPv6 itself as well as fully decode the protocol
to support all the different tunneling modes we have been able to
discover: Native 6, 6 in 6, 6 in 4, 4 in 6, 6 over UDP (Teredo), 6 over
GRE, 6 in GTP, 6 in 4 in GTP, 6 in 4 over GRE, etc. Any of our
algorithms that trigger on traffic transmitted over IPv4 would also
trigger if the traffic were transmitted over IPv6 or any of the various
tunnel configurations.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: David Williams [mailto:dwilliamsd () gmail com] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:53 AM
To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
Subject: IPv6 support in IDS/IPS products


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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