Abstract: Existing threat detection techniques for IPv6 extension headers suffer from issues such as high packet loss rates, low processing speeds as network traffic scales up, and incomplete ...

Abstract: IPv6 extension headers allow for the extension of the IPv6 protocol and provides support for some core functionality such as IPv6 fragmentation. This paper is about the issues surrounding ...

Python code to do and analyze traceroutes with and without IPv6 extension headers. Main contributor was Mehdi Kouhen while Master student at Ecole Polytechnique de Paris while being an intern at Cisco ...

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IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4 with features that better suit current and foreseeable network demands, including the following: IPv6 increases the number of address bits by a factor of 4, from ...

This document presents real-world data regarding the extent to which packets with IPv6 Extension Headers (EHs) are dropped in the Internet (as originally measured in August 2014 and later in June 2015 ...

This is the source code for the experiments that we presented in our paper Bassetti E., Di Paolo E., Drago F., Conti M., Spognardi A. (ACNS 2025). Opening Pandora's Packet: Expose IPv6 Implementations ...