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Expand Up @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ Each bullet below is a standalone, one-PR-sized deliverable unless noted otherwi
- [x] **4. IPv6 hardware offload flags** — TX: set `RTE_MBUF_F_TX_IPV6` + `RTE_MBUF_F_TX_UDP_CKSUM` with the IPv6 pseudo-header checksum in the UDP field. RX: validate IPv6 UDP checksums (honor `PKT_RX_L4_CKSUM_GOOD`). Software fallback on NICs without support. `has_tx_ipv6_cksum_offload()` accessor. *(PR [#55](https://github.com/gspivey/dpdk-stdlib-rust/pull/55), 8 tests)*
- [x] **5. Link-local / scope IDs / solicited-node multicast MAC** — `fe80::/10` handling, `%ifindex` scope parsing, `33:33:ff:XX:XX:XX` MAC derivation from the low 24 bits of the target IPv6 address. Prereq for task 6 (NDP).
- [ ] **6. NDP (Neighbor Discovery Protocol)** — `NdpHandler` mirroring `ArpHandler`: Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement message types, atomic NDP cache with fast-path lookup, auto-resolution on send, gratuitous NA on bind (parallel to our Gratuitous ARP feature), and seeding the cache from `/proc/net/ipv6_neigh` on Linux.
- [ ] **7. ICMPv6 echo reply** — auto-respond to `ping6`, parallel to our existing IPv4 ICMP echo reply.
- [x] **7. ICMPv6 echo reply** — auto-respond to `ping6`, parallel to our existing IPv4 ICMP echo reply.
- [ ] **8. ICMPv6 error handling** — Destination Unreachable, Packet Too Big (with Next-Hop MTU), Time Exceeded, and Parameter Problem parsed and matched back to the originating socket. Plugs into the existing per-socket error queue (introduced for IPv4 ICMP errors) so `take_error()` works for IPv6 destinations too.
- [ ] **9. Performance tests** — TRex PPS run at 64 / 512 / 1400B, plus the synthetic CPU-only benchmark, compared against the IPv4 baseline. Results posted to `docs/perf-test-log.md`. No PPS regression vs IPv4 required to cross off the IPv6 feature.

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