ipv6 tools + ipv4 tools fusion.

Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus stefan at seekline.net
Thu Apr 28 00:16:25 UTC 2011


On Mi, 2011-04-27 at 20:17 -0300, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
> why ipv6 and ipv4 have different name for the tools ?
> 
> for example
> 
> ping6 and ping
> 
> I think it's possible  writing a wrapper to detect if a ip is v4 or v6 
> and execute the correct cmd,

$ ping{6} www.kame.net

If you are using a DNS name it gets ambiguous what to use in the end, IP
v4 or v6.



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