There has already been a lot of research into the theoretical
differences between IPv4 and IPv6. For example, Caicedo and
Joshi [1] show some of the security challenges IPv6 poses
such as potential problems with the State-Less Address Auto
Configuration feature of IPv6, which could facilitate a denial
of service attack. This could happen for example if the
attacker prevents the target from obtaining an address through
SLAAC by pretending the pending address is already in use.
Other problems which are discussed are attacks using routing
headers which could help an attacker reach a node which
would normally drop such traffic and multicast-based attacks
which might use the All Router address. Furthermore