Pings from the Host Work Only in Some Cases
Our network engineer has responded to a new problem request by calling the user. The engineer asks the user to do some IPv6 ping commands from the user’s PC. Some pings actually work, but some do not. What should he try next?
Frankly, at this point, if you ask that same question to ten experienced network engineers, you would probably get five or six different suggested next steps. But one highly productive next step when a host gets some pings to work and some do not work is to check the host’s IPv6 settings.
The static IPv6 settings on a host can be one of the most common places to find a mistake, and some of those mistakes result in the “some pings work, some do not” symptom. First, the numbers are ...
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