GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6

[Rushil Paul]

Hi,
I read the whole thread and it seems like most of the people are agreeing
with a unified ping/ping6. I shall try to take up unifying
traceroute/traceroute6 as well.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru> wrote:

> On 04.03.2015 22:40, Rushil Paul wrote:
> > I am interested in the project - Unifying the programs ping and ping6.
> > I have decent knowledge of C/C++ and networking. I also spoke to a mentor
> > (Gavin) about the idea. I went through the source code of ping and ping6,
> > and ping6 was giving me a little hard time.
> > My mentor also told me to consider taking up the task to unify traceroute
> > and traceroute6, if I think the first task will take much less than 15
> > weeks. Problem is, I am unable to decide how much work ping and ping6
> will
> > be (I feel it will take lots of time as this is the first time I'm
> getting
> > familiar with the code).
> >
> > Will my proposal be strong enough if it is only about merging of ping and
> > ping6?
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you need to read this discussion:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2014-January/037456.html
>
>
> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>



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Regards,
Rushil