Re: [PATCH 0/1] tidbits: net-ping: add ping tidbit using raw socket

Am 05.07.26 um 17:01 schrieb Philippe Gerum:
> Hannes Diethelm <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> This patch is the result from experimenting with evl networking. I use it to do basic
>> connection tests from the out of band network and check the timing.
>>
>> It is a bit complex due to evl doesn't support IPPROTO_ICMP sockets.
>>
>> Using the in-band network stack, you can use: sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_ICMP);
>> and then only send the icmp part of the message. However, such a support is not really needed,
>> it works fine without.
>>
> 
> This said, we have an ICMP protocol module in the evl stack since
> recently, which only responds to ICMP_ECHO requests ATM, directly from
> kernel space. Extending IPPROTO_ICMP by implementing the oob_sendmsg()
> handler for it there has become an option.
> 

That would make the ping tool way simpler. I can also wait until this is available and
create a new patch. It's mostly done just to figure out that IPPROTO_ICMP is not available.