USING NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING COMMANDS WITH IPV6 ADDRESSES

All the network troubleshooting and network management commands in Solaris have been modified to support IPv6. These commands include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • ifconfig

  • ping

  • netstat

  • ndd

  • inetd daemon

  • Network server daemons

To use a command for just an IPv6 address, add the inet6 command-line option. The following command shows configuration of only IPv6 interfaces:

bash-2.03# ifconfig -a inet6 
lo0: flags=2000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 8252 index 1 
       inet6 ::1/128 
hme0: flags=2000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2 
       inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe9e:f050/10 
hme0:3: flags=2000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2 
       inet6 1234::abcd/64 
bash-2.03#

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