Re: Work on IPv6 support

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

What will be supported after this fix? UDP scanning over IPv6?

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:10 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 02:09:29AM +0530, ambarisha b wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is anybody working on  extending the raw packet support for IPv6 ? Its
> > in the todo list.If anybody is working on it,I would like to join in.
>
> Yes, work is in progress in the branch
>
> /nmap-exp/david/nmap-ipv6
>
> I haven't worked on this for a while, but there are good primitives for
> raw packet sending and receiving. Also IPv6 traceroute works (but so far
> only interprets responses from the target itself, not TTL exceeded
> responses).
>
> ./nmap -6 -n -Pn -sn --traceroute ipv6.google.com
>
> I should say that it works "up to interface difficulties." I got stalled
> on this work because I had trouble in matching up interfaces to
> destinations. I think that libdnet doesn't provide enough information.
> You can see how the IPv6 interfaces are matched up with --iflist. If you
> are interested I can think back to recall what the problem was exactly
> and what should be done to fix it.
>
> David Fifield
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