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[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ethereal does not show IPv6 addresses on my Mac OS X 10.3.4 system...

Best regards
Michael

On Jul 17, 2004, at 11:29 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:47:35PM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > But I don't even know, if the winpcap/libpcap libraries will report 
> > that
> > IPv6 addresses, so I don't know if it will be possible at all.
> > *If* reporting IPv6 addresses is supported by these libraries, it 
> > would
> > be easy to implement.
>
> If you're using the address list from "pcap_findalldevs()", then, at
> least on some platforms, you will get IPv6 addresses (and if there are
> platforms on which you don't, that's a bug).
>
> It should work on:
>
> 	the BSDs;
>
> 	Linux distributions with "getifaddrs()";
>
> 	*possibly* Linux distributions without "getifaddrs()";
>
> 	Solaris;
>
> 	at least some Win32 systems;
>
> and possibly others.  (I no longer have access to as many different
> OSes, and don't remember whethere I tried AIX or Digital UNIX systems
> with IPv6 addresses.)
>
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