There are many tools to manage and monitor IPv6 networks. The management needs are not the same in the different parts of the network as discussed in the previous sections. For this reason this part of the chapter classifies the management tools according to the part of the network they best apply to (i.e. LAN or WAN).

In this section the following tools for wide area networks are presented:

• AS-path-tree (http://carmen.ipv6.tilab.com/ipv6/tools/ASpath-tree/)
• 6NET looking glass (http://tools.6net.org , http://w6.loria.fr)
• IPflow (http://www.rrt.cr-picardie.fr/~fillot/nf6/)
• IPv6 support for netflow v9 in IOS (http://www.cisco.com/go/netflow/)
• Mping (http://mping.uninett.no)
• RIPE TT server (http://www.ripe.net/ttm//ttm-ipv6.html)
• Cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/)
• MRTG (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/)

For local area networks the following tools are detailed:

• Argus (http://argus.tcp4me.com)
• Ethereal (http://www.ethereal.com)
• Multicast Beacon (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Beacon/ and
http://noc.man.poznan.pl/noc/ strony/aplikacje.html)
• Pchar (http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Software/pchar)
• Iperf (http://dast.nlanr.net)
• Ntop (http://www.ntop.org)

At the end examples are presented of tools that can be deployed in any part of the network:

• IPv6 management gateway (http://www.ipv6.man.poznan.pl)
• Nagios (http://www.nagios.org)
• Rancid (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/)

The reader can refer to 6NET deliverable D6.2.4 [D6.2.4] for detailed test results for all the management tools known by the 6NET project partners.