I am a Phd Researcher at Lancaster university researching the security of the UK Internet infrastructure.
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.
