Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:25:45 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Rushil Paul <rushilpaul@gmail.com> Subject: Re: GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6 Message-ID: <cb86fb2a262f789c1c7b17d22159874e@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <6062CEE5-D94E-43A8-88D9-529FDEC38C49@me.com> References: <CAOqL43QYnRL9UCshEm2H4un-uK=oejz-D=Dx4nZfMdDf5ok08w@mail.gmail.com> <CAJOYFBAw870d5AVxB_uRwXaqzo1JhVVNwR7qaBMbtLb8wN1vvw@mail.gmail.com>, <6062CEE5-D94E-43A8-88D9-529FDEC38C49@me.com>
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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 > > -- > Rui Paulo > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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