March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
The IPv6 packets carrying the IPv6 extension header is shown in the following screenshot:

In the preceding screenshot, filtering the packets using ipv6.dst_opt will list all the IPv6 packets carrying an IPv6 destination option extension header. Alternately, we could use an ipv6.hop_opt filter to list all the IPv6 packets with IPv6 Hop-by-Hop options.
While the preceding task will help to narrow down the packets or the count of packets received with the extension header, it may require additional manual analysis to understand whether it is an expected behavior or an attack.
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