<div>Thats great. I am looking to be able to collect packets to/from hosts that use IPv6.</div> <div>The bpf support would be useful too.</div> <div> </div> <div>-Manoj</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni@cacetech.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT size=2>Manoj,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>what do you exactly mean by IPv6 support? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>WinPcap is able to capture all the frames, disregarding the fact that they are ipv4, ipv6 or any other ethertype.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>IPv6 support in WinPcap usually refers to two different aspects:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>1. listing IPv6 addresses associated with an adapter returned by pcap_findalldevs(). This is
fully supported by WinPcap 4.0 on XP, 2003 and Vista. It should be supported on win2k using the experimental ipv6 stack provided by MS research (if I remember well)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>2. support for bpf filters using ipv6 addresses. In general the pcap filter compiler (pcap_compile()) supports filtering on IPv6 addresses. There are some limitations to this, that I don't remember exactly. I suggest you to ask to the tcpdump-workers mailing list for details on it (pcap_compile comes from the original libpcap sources).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Have a nice day</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>GV</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=manojsrivastava77@yahoo.com
href="mailto:manojsrivastava77@yahoo.com">Manoj Srivastava</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=winpcap-users@winpcap.org href="mailto:winpcap-users@winpcap.org">winpcap-users@winpcap.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:26 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Winpcap-users] Does WinPcap support IPv6?</DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">I have found some posts in the forum regarding IPv6, but am not clear if WinPcap provides full IPv6 support. If yes, which release version supports this. Pointers to related documentation, if any, would be helpful.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal
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