Cisco IOS Software IPv6 Tools

This section covers the ping and traceroute tools, used as helpful diagnostic commands to basically validate connectivity with IPv6 destinations. This section also covers other tools used to manage the router, such as Telnet, SSH, TFTP, and the HTTP server on Cisco.

Using the Cisco IOS Software IPv6 ping Command

Troubleshooting support for IPv6 is available with the ping command. This command allows the sending of ICMPv6 echo request messages to an IPv6 destination node. For each ICMPv6 echo request message received, the destination responds using an ICMPv6 echo reply message. The absence of an ICMPv6 echo reply message can indicate a problem between sender and receiver nodes.

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