From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 6 06:32:17 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 904575E9 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x231.google.com (mail-la0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 101A5801 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by labgd6 with SMTP id gd6so8654306lab.3 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 22:32:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=sg0X0pClegb5SZ6lSdMXxC7u9TfQVVQ6r9khbTzQjG8=; b=0EXdZbgnAmSkgC10G3L7Kh5hXRp4qgtWs0Um1LyU4ebrpGUE6UfJxsdkp5PyChiL/F e2+5Vyf3TpaDaYF2r1td2lAh3F41Vec/cFCAHLFJLtJFPk111flzMH146yH/J1/P6bpt ONOCeI42w4y3u4t3VrukV2NlcS4JmF5OSIljF1BqnzbX6hHZscwtrBpvQDRdxwtmpn/n ZYpAhTbruOsEr3KVIMCYyzFjuMMJbFyqK4TeGVOW/nJmTGCweWmFqE1C2LQqujrEIYd4 F6zS251NvuOMvFkYeDJf8b/uNBDVbwAFINKYsi+NziZT+cM7H3P/l1RBnAXYHO0P66XJ yfvA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.159.195 with SMTP id xe3mr11496918lbb.64.1425623534898; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 22:32:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.9.235 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 22:32:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54F83D9F.4060205@yandex.ru> References: <54F83D9F.4060205@yandex.ru> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:02:14 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6 From: Rushil Paul To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 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: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 06:32:17 -0000 Hi, I read the whole thread and it seems like most of the people are agreeing with a unified ping/ping6. I shall try to take up unifying traceroute/traceroute6 as well. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > 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 > -- Regards, Rushil