Question about ICMP6 versus ICMPv6

[atanas argirov]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jan H. van Gils wrote:

[...]

> following problem.
> 
> - ping -a inet6 <host>
>     ping: icmp6: unknown protocol
>     ping: <host> no IP version 4 or 6 addresses available.
> 

Dear Jan,


ipv6       41   IPV6
ipv6-route 43   IPv6-Route
ipv6-frag  44   IPv6-Frag
ipv6-crypt 50   IPv6-Crypt
ipv6-auth  51   IPv6-Auth
ipv6-icmp  58   IPv6-ICMP
ipv6-nonxt 59   IPv6-NoNxt
ipv6-opts  60   IPv6-Opts

Do you have these entries in your /etc/protocols?

Cheers,
atanas argirov