GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6

[Rui Paulo]

On 6 Mar 2015, at 11:28, Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rushil,
> 
> 2015-03-04 20:40 GMT+01:00 Rushil Paul <rushilpaul at 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!

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Rui Paulo