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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Roeseler <andreas.a.roeseler@gmail.com>, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/3] add support for sending RFC8335 PROBE
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:51:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4ce1651-4e45-52eb-7b2e-10075890e382@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1605659597.git.andreas.a.roeseler@gmail.com>

On 11/17/20 5:46 PM, Andreas Roeseler wrote:
> The popular utility ping has several severe limitations such as the
> inability to query specific  interfaces on a node and requiring
> bidirectional connectivity between the probing and the probed
> interfaces. RFC8335 attempts to solve these limitations by creating the
> new utility PROBE which is a specialized ICMP message that makes use of
> the ICMP Extension Structure outlined in RFC4884.
> 
> This patchset adds definitions for the ICMP Extended Echo Request and
> Reply (PROBE) types for both IPv4 and IPv6. It also expands the list of
> supported ICMP messages to accommodate PROBEs.
> 

You are updating the send, but what about the response side?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-20  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-18  0:46 [PATCH v4 net-next 0/3] add support for sending RFC8335 PROBE Andreas Roeseler
2020-11-18  0:47 ` [PATCH v4 net-next 1/3] icmp: define PROBE message types Andreas Roeseler
2020-11-18  0:47 ` [PATCH v4 net-next 2/3] ICMPv6: " Andreas Roeseler
2020-11-18  0:47 ` [PATCH v4 net-next 3/3] net: add support for sending RFC8335 PROBE Andreas Roeseler
2020-11-20  3:51 ` David Ahern [this message]
2020-11-20  4:01   ` [PATCH v4 net-next 0/3] " David Ahern
2020-11-20 17:27     ` Andreas Roeseler
2020-11-20 20:22       ` David Ahern

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