[Bro] Detect ip proto 48 [ipv6] ?

David Moore dmoore at ucsd.edu
Fri Jul 9 23:10:38 PDT 2004


Vern Paxson <vern at icir.org> writes:

>> 2 13:59:42.305909 62.46.161.181 -> 21.3.4.16 IP IPv6 hop-by-hop 
>> option (0x00)
>> 
>> Bro not event this,
>
> Correct.  Bro's IPv6 support doesn't currently support IPv6 options (either
> hop-by-hop or end-to-end).  If someone wants to contribute that, that would
> be great.  For LBL, it's currently not a high priority, so will likely take
> a while to be addressed.

Why is there an IPv6 option protocol number appearing in an IPv4 packet?
Maybe it's just a bad packet.

-- david



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