This is a text-only version of the following page on https://raymii.org: --- Title : Traceroute IPv6 to Smokeping Target config Author : Remy van Elst Date : 05-03-2017 URL : https://raymii.org/s/snippets/IPv6_Traceroute_to_Smokeping_Target_Config.html Format : Markdown/HTML --- This little one-liner converts the output of traceroute for IPv6 to Smokeping Target output. This way you can build your smokeping config faster.

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Do note you have to setup your IPv6 probe as described [here][2]. Later in this article I'll describe the inheritance by example. I had only setup my smokepings for IPv4. Recently we had an issue were network config was borked and the whole IPv4 network was not announced via BGP anymore. I was at home troubleshooting, but finding nothing since I have native IPv6 and that part still worked. My Smokeping did show loss, and that explicitly uses IPv4. That helped with the debugging a lot. I have a [IPv4][3] version of this article as well. You can see smokeping in action [here at serverius][4]. More info about [Smokeping here on the website][5]. ### Traceroute one liner This is the command to get the Smokeping config: traceroute -6 -w 3 revspace.nl | grep -v "*" | sed -e 's/(//g' -e 's/)//g' | awk '{ gsub(/\./,"_",$2); gsub(/\:/,"_",$2); print "++ "$2"\nmenu = "$2" - "$3"\ntitle = "$2" - "$3"\nhost = "$3"\n"}' The "*" are grepped out, the `()` are removed from the IP address and we also replace `.` and `:` in the hostname, the Smokeping config doesn't allow that. ### Example This will give you something like this (for [tweakers.net][6]: ++ lo0_dr11_d12_xs4all_net menu = lo0_dr11_d12_xs4all_net - 2001:888:1:1001::1 title = lo0_dr11_d12_xs4all_net - 2001:888:1:1001::1 host = 2001:888:1:1001::1 ++ 0_ae21_xr3_3d12_xs4all_net menu = 0_ae21_xr3_3d12_xs4all_net - 2001:888:1:4024::1 title = 0_ae21_xr3_3d12_xs4all_net - 2001:888:1:4024::1 host = 2001:888:1:4024::1 ++ 0_ge-0-2-0_xr1_sara_xs4all_net menu = 0_ge-0-2-0_xr1_sara_xs4all_net - 2001:888:1:4006::1 title = 0_ge-0-2-0_xr1_sara_xs4all_net - 2001:888:1:4006::1 host = 2001:888:1:4006::1 ++ 10ge12-12_core1_ams1_he_net menu = 10ge12-12_core1_ams1_he_net - 2001:470:0:e8::1 title = 10ge12-12_core1_ams1_he_net - 2001:470:0:e8::1 host = 2001:470:0:e8::1 ++ amsix_true_nl menu = amsix_true_nl - 2001:7f8:1::a501:5703:1 title = amsix_true_nl - 2001:7f8:1::a501:5703:1 host = 2001:7f8:1::a501:5703:1 ++ 2001_990_0_1378__1a menu = 2001_990_0_1378__1a - 2001:990:0:1378::1a title = 2001_990_0_1378__1a - 2001:990:0:1378::1a host = 2001:990:0:1378::1a ++ tweakers_net menu = tweakers_net - 2001:9a8:0:e:1337:0:80:1 title = tweakers_net - 2001:9a8:0:e:1337:0:80:1 host = 2001:9a8:0:e:1337:0:80:1 This can be pasted right in to Smokeping's config. ### Probe config On Debian, add the FPing6 probe to `/etc/smokeping/config.d/Probes`: *** Probes *** + FPing binary = /usr/bin/fping + FPing6 binary = /usr/bin/fping6 The [documentation][2] has a bigger example. The inherentance in the `Targets` configuration bit me a bit. If your default probe is `FPing`, you cannot add the `probe = FPing6` to a specific check. You need to make a seperate section. So instead of this: + cloudvps menu = cloudvps title = CloudVPS ++ rt-eu01_cloudvps_nl menu = rt-eu01_cloudvps_nl - 80.246.207.201 title = rt-eu01_cloudvps_nl - 80.246.207.201 host = 80.246.207.201 ++ rt-eq01_cloudvps_nl menu = rt-eq01_cloudvps_nl - 2001:4cb8:40b:1::1d0a title = rt-eq01_cloudvps_nl - 2001:4cb8:40b:1::1d0a host = 2001:4cb8:40b:1::1d0a You need to seperate the IPv6 hosts out to a new section: + cloudvpsv6 menu = cloudvpsv6 title = CloudVPS IPv6 probe = FPing6 ++ rt-eq01_cloudvps_nl menu = rt-eq01_cloudvps_nl - 2001:4cb8:40b:1::1d0a title = rt-eq01_cloudvps_nl - 2001:4cb8:40b:1::1d0a host = 2001:4cb8:40b:1::1d0a ### No IPv6? If a service doesn't have IPv6 setup, it will fail: reddit.com: Name or service not known Cannot handle "host" cmdline arg `reddit.com' on position 1 (argc 4) I use the following version of Traceroute: $ traceroute -V Modern traceroute for Linux, version 2.1.0 Copyright (c) 2016 Dmitry Butskoy, License: GPL v2 or any later [1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212 [2]: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing6.en.html [3]: https://raymii.org/s/snippets/Traceroute_to_Smokeping_Target_Config.html [4]: http://smokeping.serverius.eu/ [5]: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ [6]: https://tweakers.net --- License: All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise. This means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it the way you like and republish it, as long as you release the (modified) content under the same license to give others the same freedoms you've got and place my name and a link to this site with the article as source. 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