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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ss: Enclose IPv6 address in brackets
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:26:51 -0700
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 14:29:10 +0200
Florian Lehner <dev@der-flo.net> wrote:

> This patch adds support for RFC2732 IPv6 address format with brackets
> for the tool ss. So output for ss changes from
> 2a00:1450:400a:804::200e:443 to [2a00:1450:400a:804::200e]:443 for IPv6
> addresses with attached port number.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lehner Florian <dev@der-flo.net>
> ---

This is the right solution but it might break someone parsing the output of ss
command. Will apply it anyway unless someone has an objection.