Greetings, New package requested for submission: tcpping-0.1 A tool I wrote to determine network latency between two points despite ICMP filtering. The idea is pretty much just like normal ping, but instead of using ICMP, it sends TCP SYN packets to the target and times how long it takes to receive the subsequent SYN/ACKs or RSTs. I have suid bit on here, I've been using this in production at work for a few months, no problems or security concerns
Created attachment 27653 [details] tcpping-0.1.ebuild
One quick update, I don't mean a tool _I_ wrote, that was a bad copy and paste from the site (http://www.kehlet.cx/~kehlet/index.php?offset=3). Wasn't intentionally trying to steal credit.
Hrm, any advantage to this over hping?
Probably not, hping seems pretty good. Either way, this is a decent package. Food for thought.
Created attachment 27693 [details] Added net-libs/libpcap-0.8 to DEPEND
I'm gonna close this as WONT, since hping2 is far more flexible, already in portage and maintained upstream. If someone can come up with a convincing argument, please reopen.
I'm fine with leaving this as closed. HPing seems much better. No problems here.