Diagnostic tool PING6 for IPv6

The PING6 program is the result of porting the corresponding ping program from the Open Source package iputils.

PING6 sends an ICMPv6 echo request to an IPv6 address which you have entered and evaluates the associated echo reply.

Starting PING6

When ping6 is called, the program expects a suitable IPv6 address or a computer name. When you specify a computer name, PING6 converts this name into an IPv6 address. using the internal tables and an available DNS server. Here the computer name stands both for the specific computer name without the domain label and for an FQDN with the complete computer and domain names.

You can call PING6 under any ID. There are, however, options which have a different value range depending on whether the program was called under the TSOS ID or under a user ID.

You can dispense with the single quotes when you use SDF-A 04.1G and higher and when the SDF syntax file SYSSDF.SOCKETS.nnn (where nnn >= 025) has been appropriately adjusted.

start-ping6 [-option 1 [Value Option 1] -Option n [Value Option n]] IPv6
address or processor name (only processor part or FQDN)
or alternatively
ping6 [-option 1 [Value Option 1] -Option n [Value Option n]] IPv6 address or
processor name (only processor part or FQDN)

You can query the possible options online:

ping6 -h
or alternatively
ping6 -?

If you specify an unknown option, the program’s usage information is output.

Note:

If, despite correct entry, the usage list is displayed following the command call, enclose the call parameters in single quotes.

start-ping6 '[-option 1 [Value Option 1] -Option n [Value Option n]] IPv4
address or processor name' (only processor part or FQDN)

If the command is now processed without error, no current SDF version is available to you.