GSoC 2015 Task: Unifying ping and ping6

[Ed Schouten]

Hi Rushil,

2015-03-04 20:40 GMT+01:00 Rushil Paul <rushilpaul at gmail.com>:
> And what exactly should my proposal include? How much code can be shared
> between ping and ping6, how to test the program afterwards etc.? Some
> inputs from experts will be very helpful :-)

A good friend of mine is the author of noping/oping/liboping:

http://noping.cc/

It's a pretty sweet tool. It supports a tonne of options and has nice
displaying/graphing. It also has support for multiple address
families, can ping multiple addresses per hostname, etc.

The tool is LGPL/GPLv2 licensed, but the last time I talked to the
author, he said he was willing to go through the hoops to get it
relicensed to BSD/MIT if a party like us would be interested in using
it. Maybe it's worth considering going that route?

Best regards,
-- 
Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>