netstat and ipv6

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> is ther ean official way that netstat should be using to NOT try fo ipv6 
> stuff?
> 
> 
> %netstat -s>/dev/null
> Warning: sysctl(net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats): No such file or directory
> 
> (hoping someone has a quick answer.. I'll go source diving later today 
> if there isn't
> an "official" thing that should be tested.)

I'd say that's a bug, plain and simple.  If net.inet6 doesn't exist
netstat should just shut up since it's perfectly reasonable to compile
v6 support out of the kernel.

-- Brooks
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