Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas?

[Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel () roe ch>]

Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com> 2009-03-09:
> Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> > o Full IPv6 support in every aspect of Nmap.  I am seeing IPv6 on
> >   the rise, already over 50% of my personal incoming email is
> >   received over IPv6!  The available v4 pool wont last much longer
> >   than perhaps three years.  Nmap should get ready for the future
> >   as well and implement comprehensive support for IPv6.
>
> I completely agree; however, there are some implementation
> details to consider when talking about the raw scans.  It seems
> to be a bit difficult to implement cleanly given Nmap's current
> IPv4 setup, or in ways that are also portable.
>
> I posted a small (now year-old) analysis of the situation:
>
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/0458.html
>
> Though there could be things that I've missed, which would be
> fortunate for Nmap.  I seem to remember a response to some IPv6
> thread which had some interesting details... I need to dig that
> up some time since unfortunately I don't think I ever got
> around to replying to it.

Here's a recent thread from linux-netdev about IPv6 raw sockets:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2009/1/15/4732024

Haven't got time to dig deeper into this right now, but if
somebody prepares (minimal) test code I can check whether it is
portable to FreeBSD, OpenBSD and possibly also Solaris.

-- 
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/

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