Plugin to compare IPv4 and IPv6 traffic

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BlastDV
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Plugin to compare IPv4 and IPv6 traffic

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Hi everyone, I wanted to know, is there any plugin that allows me to view traffic comparision graphics between IPv4 and IPv6?

I would like to view, for example, a pie chart that indicates how much traffic is traveling trough IPv6 in comparision with IPv4.

Is there any plugin for that?

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Plugin to compare IPv4 and IPv6 traffic

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Not currently. Honestly I am not sure if there are any routers out there that report IPv4 and IPv6 separately either.
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Re: Plugin to compare IPv4 and IPv6 traffic

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There is no standard MIB for that feature.
By the way, our routers do not show separte statistics for IPv4 / IPv6.

Does your router provide a counter for polling? Figure out.
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Re: Plugin to compare IPv4 and IPv6 traffic

Post by BlastDV »

Hi everyone, thanks for your answers!

We're using Cisco Routers, and no, they don't report separated traffic, all IPv4 and IPv6 traffic is going trough the same "wire".

I think the best solution to this would be a plugin or app that sniff every outgoing packet in order to check whether if is IPv4 or IPv6.
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Re: Plugin to compare IPv4 and IPv6 traffic

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Ya, I am not sure that is something that anyone is really going to want to do. Its a lot of work for almost no real payoff. Instead of sniffing traffic (you would have to do port mirroring or promiscuous mode on a trunk port to make that happen) you may try just exporting netflow v10 instead, and then write a script that parses it and just keeps count of how much data is sent via IPv4 vs IPv6. Then occasionally write it to a file or database to pull into Cacti for your viewing pleasure.
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Re: Plugin to compare IPv4 and IPv6 traffic

Post by browniebraun »

Cisco routers with an IOS above 15.1(4) are supporting counters for IPv4 and IPv6. Take a look at the index.

http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Translate&objectInput=1.3.6.1.2.1.4.31.3.1

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