We at NetScanTools support World IPv6 Launch Day and we would like to tell you that we are incrementally adding IPv6 support to our software. NetScanTools Pro 11 currently has a number of tools supporting IPv6. NetScanTools LE will be doing whois lookups of IPv6 in the next release. Here are the IPv6 enabled tools in NetScanTools Pro 11.30:

• Ping (11.0+) and Traceroute (11.3+ only) both support IPv6 address targets both direct and through tunnels.
• DNS Tools accepts IPv6 input for Simple Query, NSLOOKUP, DiG, Get Basic DNS Records and IP to ASN.
• Network Neighbors (11.3+ only) shows the IPv6 equivalent of the ARP table.
• Packet Flooder can target IPv6 addresses with UDP packets.
• Packet Capture can capture IPv6 network traffic.
• Country to IP or ASN shows IPv6 allocations by country.
• Network Interfaces shows the IPv6 link local and global addresses assigned to each interface.
• Whois accepts IPv6 global address input to find the ownership or assignment of those addresses. (11.3+ works best)

If you have NetScanTools Pro 11.30 and an IPv6 capable OS like Windows 7, please try these tools. You can even use ::1 as input - that's the same as 127.0.0.1 or localhost in IPv4. Try a ping or traceroute to ipv6.google.com or a whois of 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3. Be careful with Packet Flooder - use it with a link local address (starts with fe80:) of a nearby computer - don't forget the %scopeID number for link local addresses - see the IPv6 menu item to get the Scope ID.

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