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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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