Question about Google Summer 2020

[Peter Beckman]

The description:

"Currently there are two traceroute tools: traceroute (for IPv4 networks),
and traceroute6 (for IPv6 networks). Between the two commands there's a lot
of duplicate functionality, but there's also a lot of necessary divergence.
Unifying these commands (and allowing user selection for IPv4 or IPv6
functionality) would mean only requiring one utility."

My read from this is:

     1. Create a new "traceroute" tool
     2. based on the existing traceroute/traceroute6 code
     2. in C
     3. Accepts either an IPv4 _OR_ and IPv6 address
     4. Works correctly for whatever the valid input is
     5. unifies the two separate commands currently
     6. Intelligently re-use shared code

Unit test cases:

     traceroute 8.8.8.8
     traceroute 2607:f8b0:4004:815::200e

Beckman

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Takumi Kataoka wrote:

> Hi ,
> My name is Takumi and senior college student in Japan.
> I'm thinking to participate Google Summer of Code 2020.
> And I'd like to work on FreeBSD.
>
> I found "Dual-stack traceroute(1) command" in GSoC ideas list , it's
> sound interesting for me.
> Could you tell me more details about it?
>
> Sincerely,
> Takumi Kataoka
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