RE: RE: more ipv6 trouble

On 27 Jul, Hicks, Jamey wrote:

> /etc/protocols needs to contain an entry for icmp6, which is protocol number
> 58. The standard netbase package calls it ipv6-icmp, but the standard ping6
> looks up icmp6. The mipv6-bits ipkg in
> ftp://lorien.handhelds.org/pub/linux/feeds/demo updates /etc/protocols,
> among other things, but we should get this change back into the netbase
> package. (Or update ping6 to look for ipv6-icmp -- who standardizes these
> names?)

IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority).
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers> says that
'IPv6-ICMP' is the official name, so it should presumably be
ipv6-icmp.

(Though the ping6 on Debian2.2 doesn't appear to use /etc/protocols
anyway...)

bfn,

Joseph

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