[smokeping-users] IPv6/traceroute6 patch for SmokeTrace/smokeping-2.4.2

[David Tomic]

PS - FWIW I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 at the moment, so I can confirm that 
it works fine on that as well.

Probably should have mentioned that in my last message! ;)

Regards,
--David

On 08/12/08 02:59, Steven Bytnar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached is a patch that adds IPv6 (traceroute6) support to SmokeTrace.
>
> Release notes:
> * If Socket6 is not installed, don't attempt to do IPv6 lookups.
> * When the host is a FQDN and the info from getaddrinfo resolves
> to an IPv6 address, traceroute6 is used on that FQDN. Therefore,
> the code prefers IPv6 addresses. It may be that some people may
> prefer an IPv4 traceroute instead of IPv6 traceroute6 when a host
> returns both an IPv4 and IPv6 address.
> * When an IPv6 address is specified, an IPv6 traceroute6 is provided.
> * When an IPv4 address or IPv4 only FQDN is used, an IPv4 traceroute
> is provided.
> * I'm not a perl master (yet), so there might be a better way to
> write this line of code to remove the variable declarations before it:
> ($family, $socktype, $proto, $saddr, $canonname, @res) = @res;
>
> Tested on Mac OS X 10.5.5.
>
> Enjoy!
> --Steve
>
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