IPV6(3)

💖 IPV6 💖

okay bestie, so this is the ipv6 page, from the ipv6 1.1 manual (yes she has a version number, she's iconic like that ✨). Pull up a chair, grab a boba, and let's talk about decoding IPv6 packets with the packet.internet.ipv6 module 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

packet.internet.ipv6 — the IPv6 module, periodt 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This module decodes the IP version 6 layer. That's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly no cap 👑

⚠️ heads up bestie: extension headers are not supported. Not a vibe, just the truth. Don't come for her about it 🙈

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🎀 CLASSES 🎀

class IPv6(packet.internet.ipv4.IPv4)

the IPv6 object herself, main character energy fr fr 👑

💫 Usage:

from packet.internet.ipv6 import IPv6

x = IPv6(pktt)

literally two lines and you're living your best life 🌈

🧚 Object definition:

IPv6(
    version       = int,
    traffic_class = int,
    flow_label    = int,
    total_size    = int,
    protocol      = int,
    hop_limit     = int,
    src           = IPv6Addr(),
    dst           = IPv6Addr(),
    psize         = int,     # payload data size
    data          = string,  # raw data of payload if protocol
                             # is not supported
)

look at all those fields, she's got range 💜 and yes, psize is the payload data size, while data holds the raw data of payload if the protocol is not supported — iykyk 🍓

🫶 Methods defined here:

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__init__(self, pktt)

the constructor 💅

she initializes the object's private data. so what's that pktt thing?

• pktt — the packet trace object (packet.pktt.Pktt), so that this layer can access the parent layers. it's giving "who's your daddy" but make it packet parsing 😭

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these next, bestie, they're all part of the same friend group 🫶

• baseobj(3)
• packet.internet.ipv4(3)
• packet.internet.ipv6addr(3)
• packet.transport.tcp(3)
• packet.transport.udp(3)

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💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs. she's perfect, she's flawless, she ate and left no crumbs 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jorge Mora (mora@netapp.com) — the icon, the legend, the moment 🌟

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was NFStest 3.2, dated 21 March 2023, and honestly? she slayed 💅✨ bye bye, go decode some packets 🦋💖