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Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6


From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 16:22:14 +0200

* mark@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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