On an older system whose traceroute binary rejects a -6 flag, the IPv6 counterpart of traceroute itself is installed as a separate program under its own name. Type that command name only, with no options or arguments.

LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, objective 109. Networking fundamentals medium

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Answer

Type the answer.

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Why

Several of the classic network diagnostics ship as IPv4 and IPv6 pairs whose IPv6 member carries a 6 suffix: traceroute6, tracepath6 and ping6. On current distributions these are usually links to the dual-stack binary, which selects the family from the address or from -4 and -6, but the separate names remain valid and are named in the exam objectives. The IPv6 variants otherwise take the same options as their IPv4 counterparts.

Where this comes from

Cited
manual page traceroute6(8)

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