[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] IPv6 traffic measurement

> I was thinking of building IPv6 support in my YAPS
> program. Look at
> http://sf.net/projects/yaps-pcap/
> 
> and let me (and the list) know if this interrests
> you. We (AS12859)
> are using YAPS to account for approximately 400 Mbps
> of IPv4 traffic
> on a P4 with commodity hardware.

I took a look at your project at the above URL. Looks
good. But the catch here is that it is a packet
sniffer. An accounting tool essentially uses packet
sniffers generally libpcap but does something more
than that (using SNMP MIBS, or something like that).
The advantage of this is it can be used for large
enterprises/networks and the most important point is
if the network is migrated to gigabit Ethernet or
something packet sniffers would'nt work as they don't
follow a standard.

I've just thrown in my views. Please let me know if
I'm not correct.

> 
> They key to IPv6 implementation is a decent hash
> function for Ipv6
> addresses. If anybody has some knowledge or data on
> this, let me know.
> Otherwise I have something statistical I think may
> work fine ..
> 
> It should take me less than 5 working days of coding
> to implement IPv6
> in this program.
> -- 
> ---------- - -    - - -+- - -    - - ----------
> Pim van Pelt                 Email: pim at ipng.nl
> http://www.ipng.nl/             IPv6 Deployment
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>  

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