tshark not able to read icmp6 fields

Question

I am able to read/replay all the headers and fields with tshark until hitting IPv6 header (ethernet header & IPv6 header), but when I am trying to replay the pcap files to read icmpv6 fields, nothing is being displayed of those fields.

Is this a bug of tshark? Is there any alternative tool to read all the fields in all headers of a packet?

The version of tshark I am using is 1.2.11

Answer 1

Bro is a network traffic analysis tool with full IPv6 support, whereas tshark seems to struggle with IPv6. In Bro, you can get connection summaries by running it on a trace as follows:

bro -C -r trace.pcap

and inspect the resulting file conn.log in the same directory. You may find the accompanying tool bro-cut helpful to extract only a subset of the columns, e.g.,

bro-cut id.orig_h id.resp_h id.orig_p id.resp_p proto < conn.log

would extract the connection 5-tuple and print it to STDOUT, so that you can continue processing it with your favorite text munching tool.