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Traceroute6, Traceroute6 1425 – LevelOne GTL-2691 User Manual

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| IP Interface Commands

IPv6 Interface

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traceroute6

This command shows the route packets take to the specified destination.

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traceroute6 {ipv6-address | host-name}

ipv6-address - The IPv6 address of a neighbor device. You can

specify either a link-local or global unicast address formatted

according to RFC 2373 “IPv6 Addressing Architecture,” using 8

colon-separated 16-bit hexadecimal values. One double colon may

be used in the address to indicate the appropriate number of zeros

required to fill the undefined fields.
host-name - A host name string which can be resolved into an IPv6

address through a domain name server.

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None

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Privileged Exec

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Use the traceroute6 command to determine the path taken to reach a

specified destination.

The same link-local address may be used by different interfaces/nodes

in different zones (RFC 4007). Therefore, when specifying a link-local

address, include zone-id information indicating the VLAN identifier after

the % delimiter. For example, FE80::7272%1 identifies VLAN 1 as the

interface from which the ping is sent.

A trace terminates when the destination responds, when the maximum

timeout (TTL) is exceeded, or the maximum number of hops is

exceeded.

The traceroute command first sends probe datagrams with the TTL

value set at one. This causes the first router to discard the datagram

and return an error message. The trace function then sends several

probe messages at each subsequent TTL level and displays the round-

trip time for each message. Not all devices respond correctly to probes

by returning an “ICMP port unreachable” message. If the timer goes off

before a response is returned, the trace function prints a series of

asterisks and the “Request Timed Out” message. A long sequence of

these messages, terminating only when the maximum timeout has

been reached, may indicate this problem with the target device.

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Console#traceroute6 FE80::2E0:CFF:FE9C:CA10%1/64

Press "ESC" to abort.

Traceroute to FE80::2E0:CFF:FE9C:CA10%1/64, 30 hops max, timeout is 3

seconds, 5 max failure(s) before termination.