Re: mainstream tcpdump ipv6 ?

[Scott Laird <laird@internap.com>]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Remco van de Meent wrote:
>
> 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
> 

Hmm.  What happens if you increase the packet snapshot size to ~100 bytes
or so using -s?  I suspect that you lost the end of the TCP header in this
case, so tcpdump was forced to dump the raw packet data.


Scott