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| author | Jörg Thalheim <joerg@higgsboson.tk> | 2017-02-21 23:18:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Jörg Thalheim <joerg@higgsboson.tk> | 2017-02-22 00:32:52 +0100 |
| commit | 45719174c3a82af6e0df27812d51edc323ccc897 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c96a23c9ac02c2a9334dce9787ed7ca765ba2ef /nixos/doc | |
| parent | fd78ff23f7dd0db1a468189672aeb85f53d4ec99 (diff) | |
nixos/release-notes: mention iputils changes
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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml index 8f9694bad8bd..6e43949419dc 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml @@ -217,6 +217,18 @@ following incompatible changes:</para> </para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Iputils no longer provide ping6 and traceroute6. The functionality of + these tools have been integrated into ping and traceroute respectively. To + enforce an address family the new flags <literal>-4</literal> and + <literal>-6</literal> have been added. One notable incompabtibility is that + specifying an interface (for link-local ipv6 for instance) is no longer done + with the <literal>-I</literal> flag, but by encoding the interface into the + address (<literal>ping fe80::1%eth0</literal>). + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> |