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The following package can be tested for IPv4 and IPv6 configuration features.

Package	Description	Assessment	Notes
NetworkManager	Network connection manager and user applications	good
dhcpcd	A minimalistic network configuration daemon with DHCPv4, rdisc and DHCPv6 support	good

There is no uniform way to test the following packages.

Package	Description	Assessment	Notes
dhcp	Dynamic host configuration protocol software	good
iproute	Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools	good
dnssec-trigger	NetworkManager plugin to update/reconfigure DNSSEC resolving	good
iptables	Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities	good
iputils	Network monitoring tools including ping	bad	tracepath and possibly other tools don't behave correctly
fping		bad	lack of IPv6 support
nslookup		bad	bad default behavior
arptables		N/A	IPv4 only
arpwatch		N/A	IPv4 only
firewalld	A firewall daemon with D-BUS interface providing a dynamic firewall
bird	routing daemon
openswan/libreswan/strongswan	IPSEC implementations
quagga	Routing daemon
iptstate	A top-like display of IP Tables state table entries
net-tools	Basic networking tools
nmap	Network exploration tool and security scanner
tcpdump	A network traffic monitoring tool
telnet	The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol
traceroute	Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network
wireshark	Network traffic analyzer
iptstate	A top-like display of IP Tables state table entries
net-tools	Basic networking tools
nmap	Network exploration tool and security scanner
tcpdump	A network traffic monitoring tool
telnet	The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol
traceroute	Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network
wireshark	Network traffic analyzer

Packages	Description	Assessment	Notes
avahi	Local network service discovery	bad	IPv6 turned off by default, nss-mdns doesn't do IPv6LL due to glibc limitations
glibc	The GNU libc libraries	bad	limited and buggy getaddrinfo(), upstream getaddrinfo issues
abrt	Automatic bug detection and reporting tool
anaconda	Graphical system installer
apr, apr-util	Apache Portable Runtime library
busybox	Statically linked binary providing simplified versions of system commands
docker	Automates deployment of containerized applications		check: IPv6 in /etc/resolv.conf, IPv6 on bridged networks
dracut	Initramfs generator using udev
glib2/glib-networking	Networking support for GLib
grub2	Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more
systemd	A System and Service Manager
yum	RPM package installer/updater/manager
gvfs	Backends for the gio framework in GLib
nss-myhostname	glibc plugin for local system host name resolution
ipxe	A network boot loader
ldns	Low–level DNS(SEC) library with API
libvirt	Library providing a simple virtualization API
libevent
nss	Network Security Services
sssd	System Security Services Daemon
syslinux	Simple kernel loader which boots from a FAT filesystem

Various types of software listening on a socket.

Package	Description	Assessment
bind	The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server	good
dnsmasq	A lightweight DHCP/caching DNS server	good
httpd	Apache HTTP Server	good
openssh	An open source implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2	good
postfix	Postfix Mail Transport Agent	good
cups	Common Unix Printing System
dovecot	Secure imap and pop3 server
sendmail	A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA)
postgresql	PostgreSQL client programs

Package	Description	Assessment
git		good
curl	A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)	good
cyrus-imapd	A high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP and SIEVE support	good
c-ares	A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations	good
firefox	Mozilla Firefox Web browser	good
libssh2	A library implementing the SSH2 protocol	good
subversion	A Modern Concurrent Version Control System	no fallback to IPv4 when IPv6 default route fails	[1]
bzr	Friendly distributed version control system
cvs	Concurrent Versions System
gdb	A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Fortran and other languages
mercurial	Mercurial – a distributed SCM
lftp	A sophisticated file transfer program
rsync	A program for synchronizing files over a network
vinagre	VNC client for GNOME
vino	A remote desktop system for GNOME
virt-manager	Virtual Machine Manager
virt-viewer	Virtual Machine Viewer

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