SoC ideas about nping

[GuangLiang Yang <gygl09 () gmail com>]

Hi, everyone. I'm studying in Chinese Academy of Science now.

Yesterday I learn the project called "Nping" though GSoC, and read the
manual page seriously. I find it is small , flexible, and powerful
enough. I'm very interesting in it.
And I'm good at programming in C++. I'm sure I can complete this job well.

And I want to get more details about the project.
1. The idea list says "This year we hope to add an innovated echo mode
which allows an Nping listener to run on the target system and report
back to clients exactly what packets were received."

This process of communication is not complicated, but we should design
a new and special protocol to do with this task. Maybe there has been
a useful protocol for it, but so far, I have no info about this
protocol.

If we design the protocol, it should meet following functions:
a. notify listener to record received data from client
b. acknowledge
c. listener can send all test packets to client
...

And I have a question now:
  There is some modes the Nping tester can send packets in, including
tcp , udp, and Ethernet mode etc. And  what mode data the listener
should store? Only tcp packets, or udp, or all?


2. "it also identifies network mangling such as network address translation"

Maybe the protocol called "stun" will be useful for it. But I need
take time to learn it.

That's all. 3Q~
GuangLiang Yang.


ps :I'm sorry. There is something wrong with my gmail today. I have to
send the mail again.
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