[GSoC] Proposal draft on "Dual-stack ping(1) command"

[Sumit Lakra]

Hello,
I was interested in this project earlier. I was thinking of combining this
with the traceroute one, but I decided to go for another project later.
You will need to use Raw ICMP sockets to do this. Probably the best way.
But you will also need to make your ping command a set-user-id program, as
only root user can create raw sockets. And if you do this, you must take
extra care not to drop any bugs in the code or it can be a havoc. All the
best !

On Sat 24 Mar, 2018, 19:55 Cy Schubert, <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> wrote:

> This would be easy. Simply merge ping and ping6.
>
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> Cy Schubert
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> The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tongbo Zhang
> Sent: 24/03/2018 07:04
> To: gavin at freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: [GSoC] Proposal draft on "Dual-stack ping(1) command"
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am Tongbo Zhang, a graduated student from Jilin University, China.  My
> major is Computer Science and Technology. This year I'd like to participate
> in GSoC 2018 with FreeBSD on project "Dual-stack ping(1) command" which I
> think I am capable.
>
> I have read some documents and articles to get familiar with network
> programming. I also browsed the sources of these two commands to find the
> starting point of coding work.  Recently I finished the draft of my
> proposal, and I really appreciated it if you could review it and give me
> some advice. Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Tongbo Zhang.
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