From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 5 11:28:30 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7162FE4F for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from forward8l.mail.yandex.net (forward8l.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1819::8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "forwards.mail.yandex.net", Issuer "Certum Level IV CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29F8D74A for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1h.mail.yandex.net (smtp1h.mail.yandex.net [84.201.187.144]) by forward8l.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id A76C21A40FD1; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:28:18 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp1h.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1h.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 21C33134143E; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:28:17 +0300 (MSK) Received: from unknown (unknown [2a02:6b8:0:40c:120b:a9ff:fe93:c998]) by smtp1h.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id Gtld8YdTQI-SHsCQdih; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:28:17 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1425554897; bh=GXqhOGcQ7bSbQdOTk9a9qn4HkR/Rc972AmyUA94Ix+8=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject: References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BjjDg7ri9Yp/A8WG+7fZiFqaU2IDR0sOuQpb21C+IcgU4paR9hxz5ZTEwSFlTAgAm 2lGNH0sDYr/su+3FROzqF8ihMj5mhBjLlI0PcnBUGWx+O7eFxgLz1kYYj+PPxKv12h ymWnmFCmaxGAkt9C8aKMPEMblMJqs4BR2bDA66Ss= Authentication-Results: smtp1h.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru Message-ID: <54F83D9F.4060205@yandex.ru> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:27:27 +0300 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rushil Paul , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:28:30 -0000 On 04.03.2015 22:40, Rushil Paul wrote: > I am interested in the project - Unifying the programs ping and ping6. > I have decent knowledge of C/C++ and networking. I also spoke to a mentor > (Gavin) about the idea. I went through the source code of ping and ping6, > and ping6 was giving me a little hard time. > My mentor also told me to consider taking up the task to unify traceroute > and traceroute6, if I think the first task will take much less than 15 > weeks. Problem is, I am unable to decide how much work ping and ping6 will > be (I feel it will take lots of time as this is the first time I'm getting > familiar with the code). > > Will my proposal be strong enough if it is only about merging of ping and > ping6? Hi, I think you need to read this discussion: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2014-January/037456.html -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov