ping6 and other tool6 awkwardness

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 1:41 am, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:34:28AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 09:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> > > While working for an updated ipcalc to support ipv6 transparently, I
>> > > figured we have more tools which are not IPv6-ready and awkwardly
>> > > provide an additional tool with a -6 suffix, supposedly for separate
>> > > IPv6 support. That looks like a relic of the past, we still drag.
>> IPv6
>> > > support should be transparent in programs (fortunately we don't have
>> > > ssh6). Any objection to fill bugs to merge the following tools with
>> > > their ipv4 equivalent?
>> > >
>> > > ping6, geoiplookup6, tracepath6, traceroute6
>> >
>> > While I agree with your assessment of the separate tools, I think
>> > you're better off filing bugs with the upstream projects.
>>
>> I'm interested in what fedora ships rather than the upstream project per
>> se.
>
> Fedora ships whatever upstream ships.  Big changes like integrating
> separate programs together should be made upstream.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects
>
>> The fedora maintainer may chose to switch to another upstream
>> project if that is required.
>
> Are there other such projects that have all the features of current
> ping/traceroute/etc but integrate the tools together?
>
> Rich.
>


Probably worth it to add fping/fping6 to the list as well:
https://github.com/schweikert/fping


-jc