IPv6 userland cleanup

Gordon Bergling gbergling at gmail.com
Tue Jul 2 19:56:31 UTC 2019


Hi Nick and Mihir,

if I remember correctly the ping and ping6 commands were already be consolidated within OpenBSD. It is maybe a good starting point to look at their sources before reinventing the wheel again.

King regards,

Gordon

> Am 01.07.2019 um 15:57 schrieb Nick Wolff <darkfiberiru at gmail.com>:
> 
> Mihir,
> 
> It depends on what skills you have/wanting to learn. Specifically some
> mildly low hanging fruit is merge of ping and ping6, also merge of
> traceroute and traceroute6. These programs both have an ipv4 and ipv6
> variant. Before that making sure you can build freebsd is always helpful
> and making sure to read "man heir" for file hieraachy. "man style" for
> coding style info.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:01 AM Mihir Luthra <luthramihir708 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> My name in Mihir. I am an engineering student, currently in my 5th
>> semester.
>> I wrote this mail in continuation to thread [1].
>> Sorry I had no idea before that there were multiple mailing lists. Unaware
>> of that, I just wrote to the one that I found first after googling. I would
>> follow the right list from now.
>> 
>> I am really willing to be a part of the FreeBSD community and I wanted to
>> contribute by working on  *IPv6 userland cleanup* as my first project.
>> Can someone out there give me some tips on how should I proceed?
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2019-June/054820.html
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mihir
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