IPv6 Windows Command Line Examples

Here are some great Windows command line entries you can make to examine and configure IPv6 (assuming your version of windows does so).  We will discuss use of the "netsh" and "netstat" commands below.  For details on "netsh" click here.  For more info on the "netstat" command click here.
Let's start with some simple ones.
First, let's check the IPCONFIG from the Start>Run>CMD in Windows:

You can see my machine is running "Dual Stack" since it has both IPv4 and IPv6.  Further you can see that my machine supports multiple IPv6 addresses per interface as the Tunnel Adapter interface has a Link Local and Global Unicast IPv6 address assigned.
The "netstat -r" command displays the routing table in your computer:

We can clearly see the IPv6 Routing table with the Link Local addresses and the IPv6 Multicast groups.
Let's see if there has been any general IPv6 traffic on the interfaces.  You can do this with a "netstat -ps IPv6" command:

OK, now let's be more specific.  What about ICMPv6?  Try the "netstat -ps ICMPv6" command:

Pretty cool. Similarly we can use netstat to view the TCP and UDP packet counts for IPv6:

Another way to see the IPv6 Route Table is using the "route" command. The command-line Route tool enables entries in the local IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables, such routes can direct  network traffic to local, WAN and internet network map.
Here is an IPv6 route test example:
C:\Users\Andrew>route print -6
===========================================================================
Interface List
 14...00 24 d6 2f 04 df ......Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
 11...00 24 d6 2f 04 de ......Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
 10...00 26 9e 71 9d 33 ......Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
  1...........................Software Loopback Interface 1
 25...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft 6to4 Adapter
 31...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
 27...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
 30...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #3
 44...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #4
===========================================================================
IPv6 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
 If Metric Network Destination      Gateway
 31     58 ::/0                     On-link
  1    306 ::1/128                  On-link
 31     58 2001::/32                On-link
 31    306 2001:0:4137:9e76:3456:2b68:3f57:fef6/128
                                    On-link
 10    276 fe80::/64                On-link
 31    306 fe80::/64                On-link
 10    276 fe80::2dea:c409:e0e:102b/128
                                    On-link
 31    306 fe80::3456:2b68:3f57:fef6/128
                                    On-link
  1    306 ff00::/8                 On-link
 31    306 ff00::/8                 On-link
 10    276 ff00::/8                 On-link
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
  None
Route options:

• route PRINT - Prints out all network route information.
• route PRINT -4  - Prints out only IPv4  network route information.
• route PRINT -6  - Prints out only IPv6 network route information.

Another great tool for looking at your IPv6 configuration is the "netsh" scripting tool.  We have a separate article on netsh here.
Let's first look at the IPv6 addresses - this time through the netsh command:

Here are some other netsh commands to try:

• Netsh interface ipv6 show interfaceM
  • This command displays the list of IPv6 interfaces. By default, the interface names containing an asterisk (*) are tunneling interfaces.
• Netsh interface ipv6 show address
  • This command displays the list of IPv6 addresses for each interface.
• Netsh interface ipv6 show route
  • This command displays the list of routes in the IPv6 routing table.
• Netsh interface ipv6 show neighbors
  • This command displays the contents of the neighbor cache, sorted by interface. The neighbor cache stores the link-layer addresses of recently resolved next-hop addresses.
• Netsh interface ipv6 set teredo client AND Netsh interface ipv6 show teredo
  • These commands displays and configure Windows XP.
• Netsh interface ipv6 show destinationcache
  • This command displays the contents of the destination cache, sorted by interface. The destination cache stores the next-hop addresses for destination addresses.

How about PING and TRACE ROUTE for IPv6?  Sure.  Here is how you Ping in IPv6:

C:\Users\Andrew>ping -6 ::1

Pinging ::1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from ::1: time

Reply from ::1: time

Reply from ::1: time

Reply from ::1: time

Ping statistics for ::1:

   Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

   Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Here are the Ping options:

• -i  HopLimit  Sets the Hop Limit field in the IPv6 header. The default value is 128. Ues –i option to set the value of the Time-to-Live (TTL) field in the IPv4 header.
• -R  Forces Ping to trace the round-trip path by sending the ICMPv6 Echo Request message to the destination and to include an IPv6 Routing extension header with the sending node as the next destination.
• -S SourceAddr  Forces Ping to use a specified IPv6 source address.
• -4  Ping Forced to use an IPv4 address when the DNS name query for a host name returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
• -6  Ping Forced to use an IPv6 address when the DNS name query for a host name returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
• -t  ttl  Specify the IPv4 time to live, or IPv6 hop limit, for unicast and multicast packets. The default time to live (hop limit) for unicast packets can be set with ndd(1M) using the icmp_ipv4_ttl variable for IPv4 and the icmp_ipv6_ttl variable for IPv6. The default time to live (hop limit) for multicast is one hop.

And here is the Trace route command:

C:\Users\Andrew>tracert -6 ::1

Tracing route to AndysNew-PC [::1]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1   ms   ms   ms AndysNew-PC [::1]

Trace complete.

Here are the Tracert options:

• -R Forces Tracert to trace the round-trip path by sending the ICMPv6 Echo Request message to the destination and to include an IPv6 Routing extension header with the sending node as the next destination.
• -S SourceAddr Tracert Forced to use a specified IPv6 source address.
• -4  Tracert Forced to use an IPv4 address when the DNS name query for a host name returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
• -6 Tracert Forced to use an IPv6 address when the DNS name query for a host name returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

There is something known as Path MTU or PMTU in IPv6.  You can check Path MTU by doing a Path Ping. Pathping is a Windows based command-line tool used to provide IPv6 information.The Pathping tool provides details about network latency and network loss at intermediate hops between source and a destination. Pathping command works like a combination of ping and tracert.

• IPv4, Pathping sends multiple ICMPv4 Echo messages to each router between a source and destination over a period of time, and then it computes results based on the packets returned from each router.
• IPv6, Pathping sends ICMPv6 Echo Request messages.

Because Pathping displays the degree of packet loss at any given router or link, you can determine which routers or subnets might be having network problems. It provides more detailed network troubleshooting information as it performs the equivalent of the Tracert tool by identifying which routers are in the path. The program sends messages periodically to all the routers over a specified time period and computes statistics based on the number returned from each node.
C:\>pathping 2001:db8:1:f282:dd48:ab34:d07c:3914
Tracing route to 2001:db8:1:f282:dd48:ab34:d07c:3914 over a maximum of 30 hops
0 server1.example.microsoft.com [2001:db8:1:f282:204:5aff:fe56:1006]
1 2001:db8:1:f282:dd48:ab34:d07c:3914
Computing statistics for 25 seconds...
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 server1.example.microsoft.com
[2001:db8:1:f282:204:5aff:fe56:1006]
0/ 100 = 0% |1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 2001:db8:1:f282:dd48:ab34:d07c:3914
Trace complete.
Here are the IPv6 pathping options:

• -4 - Forces Pathping to use an IPv4 address when the DNS name query for a host name returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
• -6 - Forces Pathping to use an IPv6 address when the DNS name query for a host name returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

We hope this helps you get started on IPv6 on your local machine.

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