Win7 ping first ICMPv6 packet has the Router Alert option

[Fernando Gont]

Hi, Tassos,

On 03/10/2013 08:14 AM, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
[....]
> C:\Users\Tassos>ping -6 www.google.com
> 
> Pinging www.google.com [2a00:1450:4017:801::1012] with 32 bytes of data:
> Reply from 2a00:1450:4017:801::1012: time=51ms
> Reply from 2a00:1450:4017:801::1012: time=49ms
> Reply from 2a00:1450:4017:801::1012: time=53ms
> Reply from 2a00:1450:4017:801::1012: time=47ms
> 
> 
> Any idea?
> I'm guessing an update or a new program/driver installation might have caused it, but i haven't found anything related.

Could you make a pcap trace available for the first case?

Including a Router Alert in an ICMPv6 echo request doesn't make any
sense (unless ping6 has become a DoS attack tool :-) ).... so I'd like
to take a closer look at the packet.

Thanks!

Best regards,
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Fernando Gont
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