Understanding netifaces module for checking IPv6 support on your network

In this section, the reader will learn how to use the netifaces Python module to check IPv6 support.

Introduction to netifaces

If you want to query the network interfaces available on your computer, you can use the netifaces module. We can use a third-party library, netifaces, to find out whether there is IPv6 support on your machine. You can install it with the pip command:

pip install netifaces

For more information, you can explore the netifaces documentation: https://pypi.org/project/netifaces/.

We can call the interfaces() function from this library to list all interfaces present in the system. This script will give a list of all interfaces, and IPv4...