GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

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	


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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov