4.2. IPv6-ready network configuration tools

You don't get a lot success, if you're running an IPv6-ready kernel, but have no tools to configure IPv6. There are exist some in several packages to configure IPv6.

4.2.1. net-tools package

The net-tool packages include some tools like ifconfig and route, which helps you 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.

Auto-magically check:

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

Same check can be done for route:

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

4.2.2. iproute package

Alexey N. Kuznetsov (current a maintainer of the Linux networking code) created a tool-set which configure networks through the netlink device. Using this tool-set you are able to do more than using net-tools, but the documentation is not very well for newbies.

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

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