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<p><font face="Gentium">Hello Paul,</font></p>
<p><font face="Gentium">I'm afraid that this topic may be out of
BIRD's primary scope. If I assess your needs correctly, this is
maybe more to do in NetworkManager or something like that, or
maybe even in-kernel. But I may be wrong.<br>
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<p><font face="Gentium">If you could describe what exactly you're
trying to achieve (even off-list of you don't like publishing
the details now), I may try to give you a direct pointer where
to look at, or help you find out whether this task matches your
skills. Also there may be some collab possibility between us and
you, if we conclude that this thing actually fits into our needs
as well.<br>
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<p><font face="Gentium">Looking forward to hearing back from you.<br>
Maria<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-02-19 12:08, Mccherry, Paul
(Postgraduate Researcher) wrote:<br>
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am a Phd Researcher at Lancaster university researching the
security of the UK Internet infrastructure.</span><span
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<span style="background:#FEFEFE">I need to add support for a
proposed experimental IPv6 Hop By Hop Extension Header to
a routers Kernel to test my theories. I am more a
server/network engineer and researcher than I am a
programmer but I am able to write in Python and use
scripting languages. Can anyone recommend tools and Router
emulation software where one could add support for an
experimental IPv6 Hop By Hop Extension Header in order to
test the methodology ? The new extension header requires
changes to the IFindex table (an additional field) and a
new ACL to make routing decisions on the new field within
the IFindex table. It also will need to provide the
capability of allowing an installation engineer to make
changes to this field on initial setup.
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Bird is unable to provide such a testbed, can anyone
recommend another solution. ? However, I do think a
capability to provide researchers with an easy method to
test new IPv6 Extension headers would be really useful
considering the takeup of IPv6 and the future of the
internet.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.</pre>
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