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From: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>
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Christopher Bailey <chris@chrisbailey.io> wrote:

> I’m an undergraduate computer science student at the University of
> Alaska Fairbanks. I’m interested in unifying ping and ping6 into a
> single command, because it’s one of the suggested ideas on the wiki,
> it’s something that’s mildly irritated me in the past, and I believe I
> have the necessary skills to accomplish it.

Hello!
That's something that's bugged me too.. I'm going to be cheeky now, and ask if you've
thought of doing traceroute/traceroute6 too?

:-)

Cheers, Jamie