6Guard is a honeypot-based IPv6 attack detector aiming at detecting the link-local level attacks, especially when the port-mirror feature of switch is unavailable.
Intallation Download and install Scapy in your machine. (apt-get install python-scapy) Download the v1.0 tarball directly or the latest code from Github Repository, then extract it into a directory. Usage Enter the directory of 6Guard. Run $ sudo ./conf_generator.py to generate the configuration files. Run $ sudo .
I’ve been looking on ipv6 lately, and even though I got a global /64 for free from he.net, I’m not that amused about ipv6 yet.
ipv6 link-local scope : if you have multiple interfaces with ipv6 link-local addresses, the operating system does not know which interface to use, so you have to append the interface to the hostname/ip when connecting hosts in link-local scope. If you do not use getaddrinfo, this information has to be passed to the bind/connect using