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A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.

Let’s begin.

First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:

Concept 1

	# Linux. Act upon an event in a log file
	# www.fduran.com

	apt-get upgrade; apt-get install inotify-tools

	# create file myalert.sh:
	# example finding Exception in tomcat log and sending email

	#!/bin/bash
	while inotifywait -e modify /path/to/file.log; do

	#installing vscode on Debian

	You can install vscode using following commands:
	1- Start by updating the packages index and installing the dependencies by typing:
	sudo apt update
	2- sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https curl
	3- Import the Microsoft GPG key using the following curl command:
	curl -sSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc \| sudo apt-key add -
	4- Add the Visual Studio Code repository to your system:
	sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main"