IPv6-ready tool konfigurasi network

Dengan yang mendukung kernel IPv6 saja tidak cukup, kita perlu tool untuk mengkonfigurasi IPv6. Ada beberapa paket yang dapat digunakan untuk mengkonfigurasi IPv6.

Paket net-tool

Paket net-tool termasuk tool seperti ifconfig dan route, yang dapat membantu kita dalam mengkonfigurasi IPv6 di sebuah interface.

which helps you to configure IPv6 on an interface. Look at the output of ifconfig -? or route -?, if something is shown like IPv6 or inet6, then the tool is IPv6-ready.

Secara automatic kita dapat mencek menggunakan script berikut:

# /sbin/ifconfig -? 2>& 1|grep -qw 'inet6' && echo "utility 'ifconfig' is IPv6-ready"

Cek yang sama dapat dilakukan untuk route:

# /sbin/route -? 2>& 1|grep -qw 'inet6' && echo "utility 'route' is IPv6-ready"

Paket iproute

Alexey N. Kuznetsov (current a maintainer of the Linux networking code) created a tool-set which configures networks through the netlink device. Using this tool-set you have more functionality than net-tools provides, but its not very well documented and isn't for the faint of heart.

# /sbin/ip 2>&1 |grep -qw 'inet6' && echo "utility 'ip' is IPv6-ready"

If the program /sbin/ip isn't found, then I strongly recommend you install the iproute package.

   You can get it from your Linux distribution (if contained)

   You're able to look for a proper RPM package at RPMfind/iproute (sometimes rebuilding of a SRPMS package is recommended)