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Date:      Tue, 10 May 2016 10:26:59 +0300
From:      Dmitry Sivachenko <trtrmitya@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   ping6: failed to get receiving hop limit
Message-ID:  <D46419B0-C9A1-4B16-8A4B-75E9CD69B4F3@gmail.com>

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Hello,

Sometimes ping6 command writes the following warning to stderr:

ping6: failed to get receiving hop limit

I can easily reproduce this with 
for n in `jot - 1 1000` ; do /sbin/ping6 -n -c 5 $HOST > /dev/null ; done

It is very likely that even 100 repetitions is enough to catch this.

Other than this warning IPv6 network seems to work properly.

What does it mean?

Thanks.



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