December 2010
1 post
Using ping6 on Mac OS X or Linux
The problem
In experimenting with IPv6, one of the first things I tried was to ping computers on my LAN using the ping6 command. For example, this pings the loopback interface (equivalent of 127.0.0.1):
ping6 ::1
To see your IPv6 address(es), go to a Terminal prompt and type ifconfig. If you try to ping6 any address—even your own link-local address that starts with fe80::—you’ll get the...