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RE: where are all the IPv6 tools?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Walter)
Wed May 25 16:05:43 2011

From: Mike Walter <mwalter@3z.net>
To: 'chip' <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:04:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=+jWo-Fd4fpgBBGbnGkCtj-q3+Qw@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

We use the IPAM tool by 6connect.net, not sure if that is what you are look=
ing for exactly?

-Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: chip [mailto:chip.gwyn@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 3:40 PM
To: Kyle Duren
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: where are all the IPv6 tools?

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Kyle Duren <pixitha.kyle@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Jay Borkenhagen <jayb@braeburn.org> wro=
te:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I depend on a number of shell tools for manipulating IPv4 addresses,
>> CIDR blocks, etc. like:
>>
>> =A0aggis
>> =A0ipsort.pl
>> =A0grepcidr
>> =A0aggregate
>>
>> I have not yet found much in terms of similar shell utilities for
>> IPv6. =A0I've spoken to authors of some of these tools and they admit
>> they have not yet produced IPv6-capable versions. =A0(Not trying to name
>> and shame: those tools are great, I just want more!)
>>
>> Do folks here know of IPv6 tools that might provide some of the
>> functions the above tools provide for IPv4?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Jay B.
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> I recommend IPv6gen.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/ipv6gen/
>
> Very useful. Granted its not what you were asking for exactly....
>
> >From the site:
>
> "ipv6gen is tool which generates list of IPv6 prefixes of given length
> from certain prefix according to RFC 3531. (A Flexible Method for
> Managing the Assignment of Bits of an IPv6 Address Block)"
>
> -Kyle
>
>


There's also  "sipcalc" which has nothing to do with VOIP....

http://www.routemeister.net/projects/sipcalc/

--chip


--=20
Just my $.02, your mileage may vary,=A0 batteries not included, etc....

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