Basic tools like ping
and traceroute
work for both IPv6 and IPv4.
For historic reasons, command-line tools on some operating systems do
not support IPv6 but instead have an IPv6 counterpart (e.g., ping6
,
traceroute6
).
Due to IPv6/IPv4 translation, traceroute-like tools and 'what is my IP address' tools may show an IPv4 address.
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