ping

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Quoting Jeff Bailey:
>  - ping should be able to perform ANY type of ICMP request, and be
> useful as a general tool for network troubleshooting
> 
>  - GNU Radar (My clone of HP Ovenview) would use libicmp to do simple
> probes of remote machines.
<..snip..>
> If you're interested in doing it this way, I can dig up some more of
> my notes.

Well, by now I have implemented the same functionality that have the
`usual' pings (e.g. BSD or GNU/Linux variants). It would be
interesting to further extend it. How about your notes, Jeff?

Cheers,
Sergey