March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
When the end host using IPv6 auto configuration is not working properly, the first thing to do is to ensure that the link-local address is auto configured properly. This can be verified by checking the interface address configuration. In Unix/Linux devices, ifconfig -a will list the IPv6 addresses configured on the interface. If you don't see anything, the IPv6 stack on the host might have some issues. If you see an IPv6 link-local address, the next step is to capture the packet using Wireshark and see whether the router solicitation and advertisement messages are exchanged.
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