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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  1 Jan 2016 17:54:01 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ?  --- ip/ping -6
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unfortunately, there is some imprecision when mixing -4 and -6 with names,
and i don't have a tidy solution.

also, the man page claims that the biggest an icmp packet could possibly be is 8192 bytes, which
is incorrect.  icmp is fragmented like any other ip packet, so the maximum payload is 64k.

- erik