Reading about IPv6 security, i get the need to write a simple IPv6 client using python as first step, and libnet6 later.
Well on python there are a nice module named pcs, that permit to forge packet, here is a example of a icmpv6 client :
import pcs
from pcs.packets.ipv6 import *
from pcs.packets.icmpv6 import *
from pcs.packets.ethernet import *
from socket import *
# building ethernet header
e = ethernet()
e.src = ether_atob(’de:de:de:de:de:de’)
e.dst = ether_atob(’da:da:da:da:da:da’)
e.type = ETHERTYPE_IPV6
# building ipv6 header
ip6 = ipv6()
ip6.src = ip6.dst = inet_pton(AF_INET6, "dead::beef")
ip6.length = 8 # equal to payload length.
ip6.hop = 255
ip6.next_header = IPPROTO_ICMPV6
# building icmpv6 echo request
icmpv6 = icmpv6(ICMP6_ECHO_REQUEST)
icmpv6.code = 0
icmpv6.id = 0x01
icmpv6.checksum = icmpv6.cksum(ip6, "") & 0xffff
# we can now send our packet
pcap = pcs.PcapConnector(’ral0’)
pkt = pcs.Chain([e, ip6, icmpv6])
pcap.write(pkt.bytes, len(pkt.bytes))
In the fast, you may see a pretty ICMP reply using your favorite sniffer wireshark or may be tcpdump. But if your prefer to be more techos you can get it using pcap module as like as :
import dpkt, pcap
pc = pcap.pcap()
pc.setfilter('icmp6')
for timestamp, packet in pc:
print dpkt.ethernet.Ethernet(pkt)
