IPv6 sniffer and protocol analyzer

[Mounir Eddabbabi]

Giuliano Peritore wrote:

>    Dear list members,
>
>    two years ago I released a free Sniffing and Network
> analyzing tool for Linux called COLD which supports a
> lot of different protocols and which had discrete
> success.
>
>    The sniffer is able to gather data from different
> interfaces (eth, ppp, tr, lo, isdn) and supports 802.1
> BPDU, 802.2 LLC, 802.3 MAC, 802.5 Token Ring, SNAP,
> NETBIOS, IPX, ARP, IPv6, ICMP6, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP in
> compliance with lots of standards and RFCs.
>
>    Today I released a COLD beta of version 1.0.12 which
> supports IPv6 and ICMP6.  IPv6 is supported either on
> Ethernet or incapsulated over IPv4.
>
>    I wrote to this list since I think this is one of
> the biggest communities of experienced IPv6 users with
> lots of people probably interested in the tool.  I'd
> love to receive comments, suggestions and bug reports
> before releasing the nonbeta version.
>
>    Thanks in advance
>
>    The download URL is http://www.panservice.it/cold
>
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I've tried this software on my FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (IPv6 kame stack) and
this is the result :
#cold -i xl0
This is Cold Version 1.0.12beta - August 13, 2000 - by Giuliano C.
Peritore
This is Cold Version 1.0.12beta - August 13, 2000 - by Giuliano C.
Peritore
Interface: xl0, Network: 193.95.37.0, Netmask: 255.255.255.0
ERROR: socket: Protocol not supported