Pinging network devices from a Linux system is a really common troubleshooting step for testing your internet connection or the connection to a particular device. If you've spent any time at all tinkering with computers and especially the Linux command line, you're probably a little familiar with the ping
command already.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-ping-ipv6-address-on-linux