Re: ping

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> 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?

Feel free to add a new directory under inetutils for ping.
When you think it is ready, enable it in the top SUBDIR so we
can give some mileage under other OSes.  My boxes are
QNX4(Watcom CC) and Neutrino/QNX6.0(GCC).

P.S: Did you not say you had access to Solaris box?
I'm trying to fix bugs to the server on solaris, they use
STREAM handling instead of the usual BAD ptys.  But do
not have a solaris box to actually test.

-- 
alain