https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822888
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822888#c4
Jiri Bohac changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |INVALID
--- Comment #4 from Jiri Bohac 2013-10-01 12:00:49 CEST ---
I am now getting the same results as you, I did not have the setup right
previously.
However, I believe this is not a bug.
I agree it may be inconvenient that there are two separate programs, ping and
ping6. What the windows version of ping probably does is it detects whether the
address is IPv4 or IPv6 and then sends out ICMP or ICMPv6 echo requests.
And it detects ::ffff... to be an IPv4 address.
With the two programs being separate, even if ping6 detected the mapped
address, it is not capable of sending or receiving ICMP packets, it only speaks
ICMPv6.
ping (the IPv4 one) could detect this and convert to the IPv4 address. I don't
think anyone will care enough to implement this feature.
There is not much that can be done here, unless someone writes a ping/ping6
replacement that speaks both protocols.
Closing as INVALID (but thanks for the report anyway).
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