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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ?  --- ip/ping -6
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 2016 02:51:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160104105139.GA26700@dinah> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <703dcf90537aeb1ea61012d823f833e5@mule>

erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> once said:
> unfortunately, the simlification removes the code that solves an important
> use case.  it's important to be able to specify the protocol or network stack,
> such as in
>
> 	ip/ping /net.alt/icmp!someaddress

Most commands use an -x option and setnetmtpt(2) to arrange
an alternate network root. Is there any reason not to do the
same for ip/ping?

  Anthony



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-28  9:04 arisawa
2015-12-29  0:10 ` Anthony Martin
2015-12-30 12:48 ` arisawa
2015-12-30 13:21   ` Charles Forsyth
2015-12-30 15:05   ` Steve Simon
2015-12-30 15:26     ` Kurt H Maier
2015-12-30 19:05       ` Steve Simon
2015-12-30 22:43         ` Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen
2015-12-30 23:36           ` Steve Simon
2015-12-31  0:16             ` Bakul Shah
2015-12-31  1:36           ` arisawa
2015-12-31  3:44         ` Dave Eckhardt
2016-01-02  1:12   ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-02  1:54     ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 19:58       ` hiro
2016-01-03 20:04         ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 20:31           ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 21:40             ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:43               ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:47               ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04  1:31   ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04 10:51     ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2016-01-04 13:04       ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04 13:58         ` erik quanstrom

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