netdev - Traceroute and "ping" sockets: some questions

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Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:19:16 +0400
From:	Dmitry Butskoy <buc@...sz.so-cdu.ru>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Traceroute and "ping" sockets: some questions

Hi

I've released new version of the Linux traceroute 2.0.18, which supports 
new (SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_ICMP) sockets, appeared in the kernel 3.0 . 
This way users might perform icmp tracerouting (`-I') without setuid bit 
or cap_net_raw settings of the executable.
(See it at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/traceroute/files/traceroute/traceroute-2.0.18/)

I would like to ask some questions:

- Currently such "ping" sockets implemented for IPv4 only. Are there any 
plans to implement it for IPv6 as well?

The traceroute-2.0.18 is ready for IPv6 anyway -- just wait for 
appearing it in the kernel without recompile (I hope :) ) -- but I would 
prefer to test it as soon as possible.

- Are there any plans to implement some "rate control" (maybe 
sysctl-configurable too), to restrict unprivileged users to send icmp 
echoes too fast (ie. faster than 200 ms -- the current ping(8) restriction)?

Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
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