Hello Paul,
"Mccherry, Paul (Postgraduate Researcher)" <[email protected]> writes: > I am a Phd Researcher at Lancaster university researching the security of the > UK Internet infrastructure. > > I need to add support for a proposed experimental IPv6 Hop By Hop Extension > Header to a routers Kernel to test my theories. I am > more a server/network engineer and researcher than I am a programmer but I am > able to write in Python and use scripting languages. > Can anyone recommend tools and Router emulation software where one could add > support for an experimental IPv6 Hop By Hop > Extension Header in order to test the methodology ? scapy (https://scapy.net/) is likely going to be your friend for that type of research. I did my thesis on NAT64, so I assume you will have a lot of fun coding that. > If Bird is unable to provide such a testbed, can anyone recommend another > solution. ? However, I do think a capability to provide > researchers with an easy method to test new IPv6 Extension headers would be > really useful considering the takeup of IPv6 and the > future of the internet. While we do a lot of things with bird, I am not sure why you'd need it for your research, because it is mainly a control plane utility, forwarding is still done in kernel. Best regards, Nico -- Sustainable and modern Infrastructures by ungleich.ch
