How To Install ndisc6 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ndisc6 on Fedora 34.
What is ndisc6
This package gathers a few diagnostic tools for IPv6 networks - ndisc6, which performs ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery in user-land, - rdisc6, which performs ICMPv6 Router Discovery in user-land, - rltraceroute6, yet another IPv6 implementation of traceroute, - tcptraceroute6, a TCP/IPv6-based traceroute implementation, - tracert6, a ICMPv6 Echo Request based traceroute, - tcpspray6, a TCP/IP Discard/Echo bandwidth meter.
We can use yum or dnf to install ndisc6 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ndisc6.
Install ndisc6 on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ndisc6 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ndisc6
Install ndisc6 on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ndisc6 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ndisc6
How To Uninstall ndisc6 on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ndisc6 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ndisc6
ndisc6 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/rdnssd
/etc/rdnssd/merge-hook
/usr/bin/addr2name
/usr/bin/dnssort
/usr/bin/name2addr
/usr/bin/tcpspray
/usr/bin/tcpspray6
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/8a89e963586a34e2f440220c3334408219f383
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/a9bc3c860a2f66187c0b51821035dee65e9493
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/76f6998e1e970591cf4d981456680df363e506
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/316dc601caa3e9c052451de8d43bbd5be6ad8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/9e0025bf4e59faef22c158206d93c8291d6dcc
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/4a6167feec9ebb933a72cc500500cc0452305c
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/5997253a315f0319858ea47e94ec7d9f5f0c8b
/usr/sbin/ndisc6
/usr/sbin/rdisc6
/usr/sbin/rdnssd
/usr/sbin/rltraceroute6
/usr/sbin/tcptraceroute6
/usr/sbin/tracert6
/usr/share/doc/ndisc6
/usr/share/doc/ndisc6/README
/usr/share/licenses/ndisc6
/usr/share/licenses/ndisc6/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ndisc6.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ndisc6.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/ndisc6.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ndisc6.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ndisc6.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ndisc6.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/addr2name.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dnssort.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/name2addr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpspray.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpspray6.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ndisc6.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rdisc6.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rdnssd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rltraceroute6.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tcptraceroute6.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tracert6.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ndisc6 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.