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From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Subject: Re: GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:35:39 -0800 Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> wrote

> On 6 Mar 2015, at 11:28, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Rushil,
> > 
> > 2015-03-04 20:40 GMT+01:00 Rushil Paul <rushilpaul@gmail.com>:
> >> 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?
> 
> The first route is to upgrade liboping in ports!
LOL I'm already in the process of doing that now! :-)

--Chris
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> --
> Rui Paulo
> 
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