Are there plans to support the ND (Neighbor Discovery) protocol in ICMPv6?

Are there plans to support the ND (Neighbor Discovery) protocol in ICMPv6? This is crucial in IPv6 communication, similar to the ARP protocol in IPv4. Is it possible to consider supporting NA (Neighbor Advertisement) and NS (Neighbor Solicitation) first, so that the user can learn the MAC address normally (similar to ARP request and response).

ICMPv6 is not yet supported in PcapPlusPlus, but you're more than welcome to add it 😃

ICMPv6 is not yet supported in PcapPlusPlus, but you're more than welcome to add it 😃

OK.I am planning to submit VRRP and NetFlow protocol to master.Theres are some bugs to be fixed. After that I will try to add ICMPv6.

ICMPv6 is more important and complex than ICMPv4. Examples include ICMP ND (NA, NS, RS, RA, Redidrect), MLD (IPv6 version of IGMP), Ping (request and response), and so on. Can you help me with some abstract ideas of code framing to do it better?

Sounds good, thank you! 🙏

@angelyouyou any progress on this?

Hi @seladb

we are planning on creating a PR with a limited version of ICMPv6 and NDP.

We used it to parse and craft NDP Neighbor solicitation and Advertisements.

We are currently preparing another protocol for upstreaming to PcapPlusPlus. (SOME/IP) Afterwards we would continue with ICMPv6 / NDP.

Looking forward to the collaboration.

All the best, maruu

@maruu sounds good, I really appreciate your contribution and support! 🙏

@angelyouyou we have created https://github.com/seladb/PcapPlusPlus/pull/902 to add support for ICMPv6 and NDP. Let me know what you think

ICMPv6 and NDP were added in #902 . Thank you @kolbex for this great contribution!