Bug 175637 - ping6 tells "socket: Address family not supported by protocol"
Summary: ping6 tells "socket: Address family not supported by protocol"
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: iputils
Version: 3.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Radek Vokál
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Depends On: 175471
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-12-13 16:54 UTC by Ondrej Hudlicky
Modified: 2013-02-04 09:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-12-15 15:10:13 UTC
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Description Ondrej Hudlicky 2005-12-13 16:54:08 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #175471 +++

Description of problem:
I can't use ping6 to ping IPv6 ressources:

# ping6 ::1
socket: Address family not supported by protocol
Comment 1 Radek Vokál 2005-12-14 09:51:08 UTC 
Patch exists, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=122176
Comment 2 Radek Vokál 2005-12-15 15:10:13 UTC 
 
> # ping6 ::1
> socket: Address family not supported by protocol

The ipv6 module was not loaded on the test machine. Please check 
lsmod | grep ipv6
insmod ipv6
ping6 ::1
Comment 3 Ondrej Hudlicky 2005-12-19 11:49:46 UTC 
You are right, the module was not loaded.
Now it works fine. Thanks.
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