FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6

Niels Bakker niels=nanog at bakker.net
Fri Jul 2 14:22:14 UTC 2021


* mark at tinka.africa (Mark Tinka) [Fri 02 Jul 2021, 16:02 CEST]:
>I just noticed (although it appears to have come in version 13.0) that 
>FreeBSD's "ping" app now defaults to IPv6, i.e., no need for ping6:

Yes, this broke some of my home network monitoring. Sadly there is no 
'ping4' in the system, you have to add -4 to the commandline to return 
to the common BSD behaviour.


	-- Niels.


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