Tag Archives: ping

My 2018 as a free software developer

Posted on 20.11.2018 by mezzantrop

The year is almost near the end and I’m feeling Christmas in the air already, now it’s time to recall what was done and count some results. So, the first half of the year I used GitHub as a platform to … Continue reading →

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IPv6 multicast ping in Python

Posted on 10.08.2018 by mezzantrop

In the meantime, I continue to reinvent the wheel: just added IPv6 multicast ping to my small ICMP script collection in Python. And finally, sp_ping project page is here. Sources are there.

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My ICMP ping supports IPv6 now

Posted on 05.08.2018 by mezzantrop

Wohoo! This Sunday was awesome: I have just added IPv6 support to my own ICMP ping implementation in Python 3. Amazing, but it works: I’m not sure about Linux, but it successfully pings Google from my small FreeBSD box 🙂

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Quickly report alive IPv6 addresses on the network

Posted on 23.01.2018 by mezzantrop

While searching a robust solution to discover all alive hosts on the local IPv6 subnet, I have found the easiest way except, probably, ndp is to ping … no, not each of them, but the multicast address ff02::1 and then … Continue reading →

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