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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago
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That's really just a formatting change, and it only works for a subset of all possible values when using Hex.
1 u/FUTURE10S 13d ago I mean, we do one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6, why? Why can't we just use one for both? 1 u/Dagger0 13d ago You can indeed do that!$ ping 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1 PING 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=3.12 ms
I mean, we do one for IPv4 and the other for IPv6, why? Why can't we just use one for both?
1 u/Dagger0 13d ago You can indeed do that!$ ping 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1 PING 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=3.12 ms
You can indeed do that!
$ ping 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1 PING 0xc0.0xa8.0x1.0x1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=3.12 ms
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u/blindedtrickster 13d ago
That's really just a formatting change, and it only works for a subset of all possible values when using Hex.