<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >IPv6-ready system check</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux IPv6 HOWTO (en)" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Prefix lengths for routing" HREF="x683.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="IPv6-ready kernel" HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux IPv6 HOWTO (en)</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x683.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="CHAPTER-SYSTEMCHECK" ></A >Chapter 4. IPv6-ready system check</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html" >IPv6-ready kernel</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1.1. <A HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html#AEN718" >Check for IPv6 support in the current running kernel</A ></DT ><DT >4.1.2. <A HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html#AEN725" >Try to load IPv6 module</A ></DT ><DT >4.1.3. <A HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html#AEN740" >Compile kernel with IPv6 capabilities</A ></DT ><DT >4.1.4. <A HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html#AEN767" >IPv6-ready network devices</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="x789.html" >IPv6-ready network configuration tools</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.2.1. <A HREF="x789.html#AEN792" >net-tools package</A ></DT ><DT >4.2.2. <A HREF="x789.html#AEN799" >iproute package</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4.3. <A HREF="x813.html" >IPv6-ready test/debug programs</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.3.1. <A HREF="x813.html#PROGRAM-PING6." >IPv6 ping</A ></DT ><DT >4.3.2. <A HREF="x813.html#PROGRAM-TRACEROUTE6." >IPv6 traceroute6</A ></DT ><DT >4.3.3. <A HREF="x813.html#PROGRAM-TRACEPATH6." >IPv6 tracepath6</A ></DT ><DT >4.3.4. <A HREF="x813.html#PROGRAM-TCPDUMP" >IPv6 tcpdump</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4.4. <A HREF="x880.html" >IPv6-ready programs</A ></DT ><DT >4.5. <A HREF="x887.html" >IPv6-ready client programs (selection)</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.5.1. <A HREF="x887.html#AEN890" >Checking DNS for resolving IPv6 addresses</A ></DT ><DT >4.5.2. <A HREF="x887.html#AEN896" >IPv6-ready telnet clients</A ></DT ><DT >4.5.3. <A HREF="x887.html#AEN901" >IPv6-ready ssh clients</A ></DT ><DT >4.5.4. <A HREF="x887.html#AEN916" >IPv6-ready web browsers</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4.6. <A HREF="x933.html" >IPv6-ready server programs</A ></DT ><DT >4.7. <A HREF="faq-ipv6-ready-system-check.html" >FAQ (IPv6-ready system check)</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >Before you can start using IPv6 on a Linux host, you have to test, whether your system is IPv6-ready. You may have to do some work to enable it first.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x683.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="systemcheck-kernel.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Prefix lengths for routing</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >IPv6-ready kernel</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >