Nmap and IPv6

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>]

What is the road map like for improving IPv6 support in nmap (such as
adding OS detection)?

Since various telco sources decry the end of IPv4 by 2010 or 2011, I
thought it might be a good idea to start working out how to get the
same level of data from IPv6 as we do from IPv4 now.

I just got around to enabling IPv6 on a few systems at work to see how
our firewalls and other equipment handle it and it is pretty ugly.
IPv6 is not enabled on any of our routers, but I was able to bring up
IPv6 and talk to another system on the same network without bothering
our host IDS / firewall.  Our firewalls support it, but have no
specific rules in place for it.  I have no idea if our proxy server
will handle IPv6 web sites properly for content filtering.

Nmap is a handy tool to sling packets and find things that should not
be open.  The more it supports IPv6 before it's completely mainstream,
the better.

-Jason

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