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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] IPv6 Geo info

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:23:57 -0700
On 10/5/11 10:29 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Just checking if someone is aware of the IPv6 geo-database
>  http://www.tcpiputils.com/ipv6-geolocation-database
> 
> From (aug 2011). It would be nice to have something similar in
> Wireshark. Should IPV6 geo-info be possible now? I have built Wireshark
> (MSVC) with GeoIP support and it works fine for IPv4 addressess. And I
> have put GeoIPv6.dat where GeoIP.dat is. But I get no IPv6 geo information.

Until today Wireshark's GeoIP code only supported the IPv4 versions of
the GeoIP databases. I checked in changes in r39280 to r39284 to add
support for their IPv6 counterparts.