IDS: Re: IPv6 support in IDS/IPS products

[Jim Bauer <jfbauer () nfr com>]

Scott Sloan wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Adding IPv6 support is not a trivial process. Can you be a little more
> specific? 

It's not trivial, but it is not rocket science either.  You do basically
the same things for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.  The headers are
certainly different, so the parsing code will obviously be different,
but you got to do it in both cases.

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