netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for sending RFC8335 PROBE messages

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Message-ID: <20201113133340.6d18c186@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:33:40 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Andreas Roeseler <andreas.a.roeseler@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for sending RFC8335 PROBE messages

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:53:00 -0800 Andreas Roeseler wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 07:32 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:02:27 -0800 Andreas Roeseler wrote:  
> > > The popular utility ping has several severe limitations such as
> > > an inability to query specific interfaces on a node and requiring
> > > bidirectional connectivity between the probing and the probed
> > > interfaces. RFC 8335 attempts to solve these limitations by
> > > creating the
> > > new utility PROBE which is an ICMP message that makes use of the
> > > ICMP
> > > Extension Structure outlined in RFC 4884.
> > > 
> > > This patchset adds define statments for the probe ICMP message
> > > request
> > > and reply types for both IPv4 and IPv6. It also expands the list of
> > > supported ICMP messages to accommodate probe messages.  
> > 
> > Did you mean to CC netdev?  
> 
> Thank you for catching that. I'm new to kernel development and I'm still
> trying to get my bearings.

You should repost the series, with the mailing list CCed.