Jason Williams wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:55:27AM +0100, Fabbione wrote:
I don't think that the mantainers will be happy since ping6 is present in iputils-ping in the main repository. Same for traceroute6... just install iputils-traceroute. The last one will also provide tracepath and tracepath6.
Oh, fair enough. Why are there two different packages for ping, and why does netkit-ping have "ipv6" in the version number if it doesn't support ipv6? That's a little misleading...
For that matter, why are ping and ping6 two different programs?
Seems to work now, anyway, so cheers :-)
Hi Im not sure 100% since Im too lazy to read documentation for a ping but the iputils-ping include both ping and ping6 and conflicts with netkit-ping. AFAIK the source codes come from different parts (talking about ping.. something like traceroute, traceroute-nanog) I hounestly would also like one utils but the only reason I can see is that for instance pinging www.something.org can be resolved both in ipv6 and ipv4. So which one should be used??? then to switch you will always need a flag... so here are ping and ping6 (same as traceroute I mean..)
Fabbione
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