mainstream tcpdump ipv6 ?

[Remco van de Meent <remco@vandemeent.net>]

Hi,

In contrary to what I just read in a message on this list, it seems to
me that the current mainstream tcpdump package (just installed the
3.6.1-1 package) does not really support ipv6 very well.

Upon instantiating a telnet connection over an ipv6 link, I get output
like this:

17:51:53.904668 0:80:48:cd:90:6f 0:80:48:cd:90:b ip6 94: 
                         6000 0000 0028 0640 2001 0610 1800 8484
                         0000 0000 e686 0001 2001 0610 1800 8484
                         0000 0000 e686 0002 0a3f 0017 0fe2 a4e9
                         0000 0000 a002

So it does actually recognize it as being ipv6 traffic, but doesn't do
anything useful with it. A previous version (the one with ipv6 patches)
seemed to work fine though.


Cheers,
Remco.