"Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> writes: > ping is for IPv4, ping5 is for IPv6. There is nothing "legacy" about > IPv4. Use the right command for the right task.
I generally agree. Having both a ping and ping6 commands seems fairly common. I wouldn't mind having 'ping' support both IPv4 and IPv6 with arguments to chose though. I think that was even but in the TODO file long ago. But I am in no rush to do so. Collin
