Re: [NSE][patch] targets-sniffer: sniff IPv6 addresses, fix newtargets for -6

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:49:08AM -0600, Daniel Miller wrote:
> List,
>
> Here's a patch to add IPv6 address sniffing to targets-sniffer. The
> major difference is changing the BPF from "ip" to "ip or ip6". I had
> to add a couple checks for NDP multicast addresses to
> check_if_valid, and I may have missed some other invalid IPv6
> addresses.
>
> I also fixed an issue (not quite a bug) where targets would be added
> with newtargets even if they were not of the current address_family.
> This resulted in lots of lines like this:
> > Failed to resolve given IPv6 hostname/IP: 192.168.1.1.  Note that
> > you can't use '/mask' or '[1-4,7,100-]' style ranges for IPv6.

Maybe it should additionally change the BPF filter to only "ip" or only
"ip6" depending on the address family?

David Fifield
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