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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:13:46 +0900 From: Hideaki Yoshifuji <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com> To: Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>, Sami Kerola <kerolasa@....fi>, "Hideaki Yoshifuji (yoshfuji)" <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com> Subject: Re: ping (iputils) review (call for help) Hi, 2022年11月10日(木) 7:01 Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz>: > > Hi David, > > first, thanks a lot for having a look! > > > BTW I wonder if it make sense to list Hideaki YOSHIFUJI as NETWORKING > > > IPv4/IPv6 maintainer. If I'm not mistaken, it has been a decade since he was active. > > > > * ping: Call connect() before sending/receiving > > > https://github.com/iputils/iputils/pull/391 > > > => I did not even knew it's possible to connect to ping socket, but looks like > > > it works on both raw socket and on ICMP datagram socket. > > > no strong opinion on this one. A command line option to use connect > > might be better than always doing the connect. > I was thinking about it, as it'd be safer in case of some regression. > If there is no other opinion I'll probably go this way, although I generally > prefer not adding more command line options. +1: Because ping utility is a basic (or fundamental) tool for debugging networks, I do prefer having an option like this to help low-level debugging. --yoshfuji
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