The main purpose of the developed IPv6 Management Gateway is to enable the existing IPv4 network management platforms to monitor, configure and manage the native IPv6 network. The IPv6
Management Gateway translates SNMP and ICMP protocol messages between IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

Example implementation in 6NET:

The IPv6 Management Gateway was used to support the monitoring of 6NET core routers and“ping hosts”. Monitoring was performed using Ipswitch, Inc. “WhatsUp Gold”, which supports only IPv4.

The IPv6 Management Gateway translates SNMP, ICMP and TCP protocol messages between WhatsUp Gold (IPv4) and the 6NET network (IPv6). WhatsUp Gold is accessible at http://chives.man.poznan.pl. The IPv6 Management Gateway is implemented on plum.man.poznan.pl.