GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6

[Chris H]

On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:25:45 -0800 "Chris H" <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote

> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:35:39 -0800 Rui Paulo <rpaulo at me.com> wrote
> 
> > 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!
> LOL I'm already in the process of doing that now! :-)
> 
> --Chris
In case anyone's interested; this is the PR:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198379

--Chris
> > 
> > --
> > Rui Paulo
> > 
> > 
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