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Date: Mon,  4 Jan 2016 02:51:39 -0800
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ?  --- ip/ping -6
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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