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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Witvliet wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 08:48 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> > James Knott wrote:
> >
> > > Per Jessen wrote:
> > > > However, I must be missing something as I'm unable to ping an IPv6
> > > > address,
> > >
> > > Are you using "ping" or "ping6"?
> >
> > ping6 :-)
>
> >
> Or a website from the other part of the world:
> http://www.kame.net/
> Different view from either v4 or v6
>
> It is bad that there is a dedicated ping6, traceroute6 or ip6table.
> Like web-browsers, ssh and rsync it should be transparant to the user.

In principle you're right, but in practice "the user" will have little
or no need for ping, traceroute and iptables.  The network or system
admin will not have an issue with ping6, traceroute6 and ip6tables.


-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (3.2°C)

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