Bug 45167 – tcpping-0.1.ebuild (New Package)

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron Lake 2004-03-19 14:05:23 UTC]

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

[Comment 1 Aaron Lake 2004-03-19 14:05:57 UTC]

Created attachment 27653 [details]
tcpping-0.1.ebuild

[Comment 2 Aaron Lake 2004-03-19 14:13:54 UTC]

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.

[Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-03-19 15:34:54 UTC]

Hrm, any advantage to this over hping?

[Comment 4 Aaron Lake 2004-03-19 17:01:29 UTC]

Probably not, hping seems pretty good.  Either way, this is a decent package.  Food for thought.

[Comment 5 Aaron Lake 2004-03-20 07:57:23 UTC]

Created attachment 27693 [details]
Added net-libs/libpcap-0.8 to DEPEND

[Comment 6 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-05-01 09:24:28 UTC]

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.

[Comment 7 Aaron Lake 2004-05-01 10:41:22 UTC]

I'm fine with leaving this as closed.  HPing seems much better.  No problems here.