Re: bad default in ping
Collin Funk <[email protected]> Thu, 08 May 2025 20:12:08 -0700
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> 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