Verifying Host Connectivity from Nearby Routers

For router verification commands for IPv6, some IPv6 features use the exact same command as with IPv4, but some substitute “ipv6” for “ip.” And in some cases, particularly with functions that do not exist in IPv4 or have changed quite a bit, routers support brand new commands. This section looks at a couple of router commands useful to verify IPv6 host connectivity, some old and some new for IPv6.

First, for the more familiar commands. Cisco routers and switches support the ping and traceroute commands with the same basic features for IPv6 as with IPv4. For the standard version of the commands, the commands accept either an IPv4 or an IPv6 address as input. For the extended versions of these commands, ...

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