I'd like to do some IPv6 testing at home, using VirtualBox. I could create a few VMs and leave it at that, but I feel that to really test IPv6 you have to scale up to many nodes.So I wonder: what's the smallest distribution of Linux or BSD that I could use for this? I only need IPv6 support, a shell and a few net utilities (ping, telnet, nslookup/dig, and little more).My aim is to create many small VMs, ideally with RAM-backed storage (I've got 12GB of RAM, and using multiattach images I should be able to store them in tmpfs for quicker access) and little RAM (<=64MB). Then I'd unleash them against some radvd and/or dhcp6 server to test IPv6 stuff.
Smallest Linux/BSD distribution for IPv6 testing?
virtualbox;ipv6;small distribution
You can try following Linux DistrosDamn small LinuxPuppy LinuxTiny Core Linux (8 MB) There are many more and most of them have IPv6 support. You will need to check them individually.Also mind looking this Wikipedia Page.