6Guard (IPv6 attack detector)
6Guard is an IPv6 attack detector sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2012 and supported by The Honeynet Project organization.
6Guard (IPv6 attack detector)
6Guard is an IPv6 attack detector sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2012 and supported by The Honeynet Project organization.
6Guard (IPv6 attack detector) Description
6Guard is an IPv6 attack detector aiming at link-local level security threats, including most attacks initiated by the THC-IPv6 suit and the advanced host discovery methods used by Nmap. It can help the network administrators detect the link-local IPv6 attacks in the early stage. 6Guard is sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2012 and supported by The Honeynet Project organization. The project page is at Project 9 - IPv6 attack detector (Xu). Here is an example of the attacking alert message provided by 6Guard. [ATTACK] Timestamp: 2012-08-19 14:48:27 Reported by: Honeypot-apple-2A:C4:2D Type: DoS Name: Fake Echo Request Attacker: [Unknown] 00:00:de:ad:be:ef (CETIA) Victim : [Honeypot-apple-2A:C4:2D] 40:3C:FC:2A:C4:2D (Apple, Inc.) Utility: THC-IPv6: smurf6 Packets: b12fe3415c1d61c1da085cb8811974a2.pcap Installation Download and install Scapy in your machine. (Or apt-get install python-scapy) Download the latest code from Github/mzweilin/ipv6-attack-detector and extract it into a directory. Usage Enter the directory of 6Guard. Run $ sudo ./conf_generator.py to generate the configuration files. Run $ sudo ./6guadrd.py. Note If it is the first t
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