From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 6 19:28:54 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE79E413 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:28:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x230.google.com (mail-ig0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::230]) (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 8393976C for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:28:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igdh15 with SMTP id h15so6362277igd.4 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=De6uLiw1A3cZ8v9tn9UTceZ83OyITjEV8PqgnX06xNw=; b=qYYqFB+1UevdGd7B1v8XFT+mpX3Me1mGrZJZJFbtZSJunA5jGfLVKQ6jL4tb7OuNNc +0WZXW8RsmE/jZa7o7rRJrWRGlOE9Iy3hv7in/u+G693WNOBmqFDyV0NXIaYC14dm/pP GJlL02IXfMNnI8LFQwRlt7UzN7BO3jHcX7nHLfNwNCakib1sZtvYOILRXxwhIWCxYW3t xNtnP/UrWo8SBccNiDBrkmd8ugICs1IlpSDXeuCwKD7tuF3NzDJzdOtTjji1V1PHfP5N u9Bc/7TgEe3c6aSJTNOJqZ24j0zgmLDRwd0gG5z1fHIcuDtjkW/gzJUxEdf0cFO9oH6t Q60A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.167.8 with SMTP id q8mr12108705icy.94.1425670133881; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:53 -0800 (PST) Sender: edschouten@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.8.26 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:28:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:28:53 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6DGDu0U8bcFaxrpwkX31oWwU9yo Message-ID: Subject: Re: GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6 From: Ed Schouten To: Rushil Paul Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 19:28:54 -0000 Hi Rushil, 2015-03-04 20:40 GMT+01:00 Rushil Paul : > And what exactly should my proposal include? How much code can be shared > between ping and ping6, how to test the program afterwards etc.? Some > inputs from experts will be very helpful :-) A good friend of mine is the author of noping/oping/liboping: http://noping.cc/ It's a pretty sweet tool. It supports a tonne of options and has nice displaying/graphing. It also has support for multiple address families, can ping multiple addresses per hostname, etc. The tool is LGPL/GPLv2 licensed, but the last time I talked to the author, he said he was willing to go through the hoops to get it relicensed to BSD/MIT if a party like us would be interested in using it. Maybe it's worth considering going that route? Best regards, -- Ed Schouten