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On Tue Nov 27 12:16:24 2012, VinsWorldcom wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from vinsworldcom@gmail.com, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.16.1. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please describe your issue here] > > There is currently no IPv6 support in Net::Ping relying on IPv4 only > routines like sockaddr_in and inet_ntoa/aton. I've created a patch to > support IPv6. It's 95% complete. I'm having issues calculating the > ICMPv6 checksum. > > As you may know, the ICMPv6 checksum is different than ICMPv4 in that > ICMPv6 uses a pseudo-header (much like TCP/UDP) for checksum > calculation. How to find the source address if the user does not call > bind() before actually sending the packet? > > Other than that, IPv4 remains the default and all tests result in the > same output for me as they did before the patch. IPv6 ping now also > works, only not with ICMPv6 as transport (due to aforementioned > checksum > issue). > > I'd like some help getting that last ICMPv6 checksum part resolved and > get this IPv6 support added to Net::Ping. > > The original bug was submitted via CPAN at: > > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80479 > > and the patch is included with that bug report and follows: > Steve Peters: Your posting at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80479#txn-1191096 indicates you were working on v2.40 of Net::Ping. We now have v2.41 in blead. Does that mean that the feature request in RT #115932 has been met? (Trying to see if this ticket is closeable.) Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=115932Thread Previous