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3YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (14):
4 ninfod: Use unsigned int for digest.
5 ninfod: nanosleep(3) needs <time.h>.
6 ninfod: Too many arguments for syslog(3)/fprintf(3) via DEBUG().
7 ninfod: Fix several warnings on ununsed variables.
8 ping6: Print unknown ICMP type.
9 ping6: Fix flowlabel switch (-F option).
10 arping: Fix sysfs decimal/hexadecimal parser for libsysfs support.
11 ping6: Use GNU TLS by default.
12 ninfod: Fix memory leakage in error path.
13 ninfod: Fix off-by-one error to check possible programming error (again).
14 ninfod: Do not expose freed buffer to caller.
15 ping6: Ensure to initialize msghdr.
16 ninfod: Support GNU TLS.
17 ninfod: Allow printing usage without permission errors.
18
19
20[s20121207]
21
22YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (2):
23 RELNOTES: Typos.
24 ping,ping6: Check outgoing device only if specified.
25
26
27[s20121205]
28
29Jan Synacek (1):
30 ping,tracepath doc: Fix missing end tags.
31
32YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (35):
33 tracepath6: packet length option (-l) did not have any effect.
34 tracepath,tracepath6: Fix pktlen message.
35 tracepath,tracepath6: Use calloc(3) instead of using stack.
36 tracepath6: Ignore families other than IPv4 and IPv6.
37 ping6: Improve randomness of NI Nonce.
38 tracepath,tracepath6 doc: Fix default pktlen.
39 ping,rdisc: Optimize checksumming.
40 makefile: Static link support for crypto, resolv, cap and sysfs.
41 doc: Ajdust spaces around sqare brackets.
42 ping,rdisc: Use macro to get odd byte when checksumming.
43 ping6: Do not try to free memory pointed by uninitialized variable on error path.
44 arping: Allow building without default interface.
45 arping: No default interface by default.
46 arping: Allow printing usage without permission errors.
47 ping,ping6: Allow printing usage without permission errors.
48 ping,ping6: Fix cap_t leakage.
49 arping,ping,ping6: Do not ideologically check return value from cap_free,cap_{set,get}_flag().
50 arping: Fix sysfs_class leakage on error path.
51 arping: Some comments for new functions for finding devices support.
52 arping: Typo in type declaration.
53 makefile: Use call function for external libraries.
54 makefile: Add more comments.
55 arping: Ensure to fail if no appropriate device found with sysfs.
56 arping: Enforce user to specify device (-I) if multiple devices found.
57 Makefile: parameterize options for linking libraries.
58 Makefile: Use shell function instead if backquotes.
59 Makefile: Ensure to have same date when making snapshot.
60 spec: Maintainer does not use ipsec.spec.
61 spec: partially sync with fedora.
62 Makefile: Bump date in iputils.spec as well.
63 spec: Add exmple lines for suid-root installation
64 spec: Sort changelog.
65 ping: Exit on SO_BINDTODEVICE failure.
66 ping: Warn if kernel has selected source address from other interface.
67 ping: Clarify difference between -I device and -I addr.
68
69
70[s20121126]
71
72YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (5):
73 tracepath: Repair tracepath without -p option.
74 tracepath,tracepath6: -p option in usage.
75 ping,ping6: Use MAX_DUP_CHK directly, not using mx_dup_chk variable.
76 ping,ping6: Abstract received bitmap macros/definitions.
77 ping,ping6: Use __u64 or __u32 for bitmap.
78
79
80[s20121125]
81
82YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (30):
83 ping6: Use IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED() instead of our own helper function.
84 ping6 doc: Explicitly describe ping6 is IPv6 version if ping.
85 ping6: Deprecate source routing by default (RFC5095).
86 ping6: Use RFC3542 functions and definition for source routing.
87 ping6: Introduce niquery_is_enabled() for readability.
88 arping doc: interface is optional (-I option).
89 ping: Eliminate dirty hack to cope with ancient egcs bug.
90 Makefile: Fix missing right parenthes in comment.
91 arping: Fix build failure with USE_SYSFS=yes and/or WITHOUT_IFADDRS=yes
92 arping: Unify source files.
93 arping: Reorder functions and comment out unsued code.
94 arping,ping,ping6,tracepath,traceroute6 Makefile: Support static link of libidn by USE_IDN=static.
95 Makefile: Minimize statically linked libraries.
96 ping6: Do not clear seq check array twice for NI.
97 ping6: Use MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH instead of magic value 16.
98 ping6: Introduce helper functions for nonce in NI.
99 ping6: Introduce NI_NONCE_SIZE macro instead of magic value 8.
100 ping6: Ensure to call srand() to get some randomness in NI Nonce.
101 ping6: Generate different NI Nonce in each NI Query (Memory version).
102 ping6: Generate different NI Nonce in each NI Query (MD5 version).
103 ping6: Cache NI Nonce.
104 ping6: Print 'sequence number' embedded in NI Nonce.
105 ninfod: Do noy try to memcpy to self.
106 ninfod Makefile: More precise dependencies.
107 ninfod: Discard multicat packet outside linklocal scope.
108 ninfod: Apply default policy to refuse queries from global addresses.
109 ninfod: Normalize timespec for delay.
110 ninfod: Fix double-free without pthreads.
111 ninfod: Do not mix output from multiple threads.
112 ninfod: Employ internal buffer in stderrlog() for common case.
113
114
115[s20121121]
116
117Jan Synacek (2):
118 ping,ping6: Add newline to error message.
119 ping: Don't free an unintialized value.
120
121YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (31):
122 arping,clockdiff,ping,rarpd,rdisc,traceroute6 doc: s/CAP_NET_RAWIO/CAP_NET_RAW/.
123 ping,ping6: Do not assume radix point is denoted by '.' (-i option).
124 arping,ping,ping6,rdisc,traceroute6: Fix version string.
125 makefile: Give -fno-strict-aliasing to compiler by default.
126 ping6: Use SCOPE_DELIMITER.
127 Makefile: Remove -lm from ADDLIB.
128 rdisc_srv,Makefile: Fix build.
129 rdisc_srv,Makefile: Build rdisc_srv with make all.
130 arping: set_device_broadcast() does not need to store return value of sub-functions.
131 arping,Makefile: Make default interface configurable.
132 arping: Do not allow empty device name (-I option).
133 arping: Introduce check_ifflags() helper function.
134 arping: Introduce device structure to hold output device information.
135 arping: ALlow no default interface and select one by getifaddrs().
136 arping: Introduce 2nd (legacy) method to select interface by ioctls.
137 arping,Makefile: Allow build without getifaddrs() with WITHOUT_IFADDRS=yes.
138 Makefile: Use $< instead of $^ to complile C source code.
139 ping,ping6: Reorder command-line options in alphabetical order.
140 ping6: Show suboptions for Node Information Queries if -N suboption is invalid.
141 ping,ping6 doc: Readability for TOS (-Q) option.
142 rdisc: Missing new line after usage.
143 rdisc: Make rdisc with responder support if configured.
144 Makefile: distclean depends on clean.
145 Makefile: Default to -O3.
146 Makefile: Minimize options to gcc.
147 Makefile: Add rule to build assembly files.
148 arping,Makefile: 3rd legacy implementation to check network devices.
149 arping: Less ifdefs.
150 rdisc doc: Document -r, -p and -T options.
151 ping6: NI Subjecet address did not work (-N subject-{ipv6,ipv4] suboptions).
152 ping6: Ensure to detect subject type conflicts.
153
154
155[s20121114]
156
157Jan Synacek (2):
158 clockdiff: remove unused variable
159 ping: Wrap SO_BINDTODEVICE with the correct capability.
160
161YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (13):
162 ping: IP_MULTICAST_IF does not need CAP_NET_RAW.
163 ping6: Check ranges of flowlabel (-F option) and tclass (-Q option) arguments.
164 ping6: Accept 0x-notation for flowlabel (-F option) and tclass (-Q option) arguments.
165 ping,ping6: Manual update regarding -F, -Q and -N option.
166 arping,ping,ping6: Defer exitting to allow users to see usage.
167 arping,ping,ping6,ninfod: Change euid to uid (non-root) even if capabiliy is enabled.
168 ninfod: Add configure.
169 ninfod: libcap support to drop capabilities.
170 ninfod: Add run as user (-u user) option.
171 ninfod: Fix usage message.
172 arping,clockdiff,rarpd,rdisc,tftpd: Change RFC source to tools.ietf.org.
173 ninfod: Add ninfod(8) manpage.
174 makefile: Add ninfod, distclean targets.
175
176
177[s20121112]
178
179Sergey Fionov (1):
180 ping,ping6: Fallback to numeric addresses while exiting
181
182YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (18):
183 ping,ping6: Rework capability support and Make sure -m and -I options work.
184 ping,tracepath: Spelling fixes in manpages.
185 ping,ping6: Fix integer overflow with large interval value (-i option).
186 clockdiff: Make it work with large pid.
187 ping,ping6: Make in_pr_addr volatile.
188 arping: Do not quit too early with large deadline value (-w option).
189 arping: Maintain minimum capabilities for SO_BINDTODEVICE(-I option).
190 ping: Fix recorded route comparison.
191 arping: Use getifaddrs() to get broadcast address.
192 ping6: Fix typo in error message.
193 ping6: Generate NI Group Address and Subject Name at once.
194 ping,ping6: Unmask signals on start-up.
195 arping: Build with USE_CAP=no.
196 arping,ping,ping6,tracepath,tracepath6,traceroute6: Experimental IDN support.
197 ping6: IDN support for the Subject Name in NI Query.
198 tracepath,tracepath6: Introduce -p option for port.
199 ping6: Add missing definitions/declarations for flowlabel management (-F option).
200 makefile: Do not include merge commits in RELNOTES.
201
202
203[s20121106]
204
205YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (5):
206 ninfod: Attatch configure and renew config.h.in.
207 makefile: clean-up
208 tracepath6: Print reason on getadrinfo() failure.
209 ping,ping6: Fix hang with -f option.
210 ping: Make sure to print C if checksum failed with -f option.
211
212
213[s20121011]
214
215Jan Synacek (2):
216 ping,ping6: Defer the dropping if the "-m" is specified and correct capability is set.
217 ping: Fix typo in echo reply
218
219Ole Bjorn Hessen (1):
220 ping: report outstanding packets before sending next packet
221
222YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (32):
223 ping,ping6: Add -D to synopsis.
224 ping: More icmp code descriptions.
225 ping,ping6: Hide ipg/ewma info without packets received.
226 ping6: Remove unused variable.
227 ping6: Help for -N suboptions.
228 tracepath,tracepath6: Use argument type of int for field width specifier.
229 clockdiff: Call nice() before changing effective uid.
230 rdisc: Use fputs() instead of fprintf() to shut up gcc warning.
231 rarpd: Check return value of chdir().
232 makefile: Introduce new variable for capability support.
233 ping,ping6: Check return value of write(2) for stdout.
234 ping6,tracepath,tracepath6: Do not dereference type-punned pointer directly.
235 Makefile: host changed from takos to pleiades.
236 ping6: Provide enough buffer for dn_comp() and make NI Query with Name subject work.
237 ping6: Consolidate error path of niquery_option_subject_name_handler().
238 ninfod: Node Information Query (RFC4620) daemon from USAGI Project.
239 ninfod: struct in6_pktinfo requires -D_GNU_SOURCE.
240 ninfod: Use %zu format string for size_t variable.
241 ninfod: Add missing entry for ENABLE_SUPTYPES in config.h.in.
242 ninfod: Support newer environment supporting RFC3542.
243 ninfod: Fix format string for string returned from strerror(3).
244 ninfod: Check return value of fscanf(3).
245 ninfod: Fix off-by-one error to check possible programming error.
246 ninfod: Add datarootdir.
247 ninfod: Use __func__ instead of __FUNCTION__.
248 ninfod: Introduce ARRAY_SIZE macro for counting number of elements in an array.
249 ninfod: Delete ninfod.sh by make distclean, not by make clean.
250 ping6: Do not try to use result buffer when dn_comp(3) failed.
251 ping,ping6: ifdef guard for inline function for capability support and fix build with USE_CAP=no.
252 makefile: Do not use "-llib" dependency.
253 arping: build without sysfs support (USE_SYSFS=no).
254
255Ángel González (1):
256 iputils: Add capability dropping
257
258
259[s20101006]
260
261Chris Caputo (1):
262 ping,ping6: avoid gethostbyaddr during ping flood.
263
264Paul Martin (1):
265 arping: Set correct broadcast address.
266
267YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (4):
268 tracepath: Fix some small typos in tracepath.sgml.
269 ping: Fix resource consumption triggered by specially crafted ICMP Echo Reply (CVE-2010-2529)
270 Makefile: migrate main machine from beatrice to takos.
271 Makefile: Use newer git subcommand style instead of git-subcommand.
272
273
274[s20100418]
275
276YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (28):
277 ping6: Use IPV6_TCLASS to set outgoing traffic class if available.
278 ping: Make build_echo(), gather_statistics() more generic.
279 ping6: Experimental support for Node Information Queries (RFC4620).
280 ping: simplify usage hint.
281 ping: Rename constant names
282 Extend -N option for NI Query options.
283 ping6: Make length-check qtype-specific.
284 ping6: Remove too many spaces between names.
285 ping6: ping6_niquery.h needs asm/byteorder.h.
286 ping6: Support Qtypes for IPv6/IPv4 Addresses.
287 ping6: Split pr_niquery_reply().
288 ping6: Handle ICMPv6 code in NI Reply.
289 ping6: Add subject-ipv6 and subject-ipv4 NI sub-option for subject address.
290 ping6: Support subject name.
291 ping6: Free old memory when reassign pointers.
292 ping6: Always enable IPv6 Node Information Queries.
293 makefile: Do not always link libresolv and libcrypto.
294 ping,traceroute6,clockdiff: Enlarge hostname buffer.
295 ping6: do not allow too large packet size by -s option.
296 ping: needless space when printing usage.
297 rdisc: Fix typo in error message.
298 rdisc: Allow multiple addresses on one interface.
299 arping: Support link-layer type with larger link-layer address.
300 tracepath6: resolve target even if -n option is supplied.
301 tracepath,tracepath6: sync tracepath and tracepath6.
302 tracepath6: Make it more protocol independent.
303
304
305[s20100214]
306
307Jamal Hadi Salim (2):
308 ping: ping by mark
309 ping: ping by mark doc update
310
311Jamie Le Tual (1):
312 ping: set un.echo.id to network byte order
313
314YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (11):
315 [PING6,TRACEROUTE6]: Ignore error in setting IPV6_CHECKSUM socket option for ICMPv6 socket.
316 [PING6]: Use if_nametoindex() to convert ifname to ifindex.
317 [PING6]: Allow to specify source address with interface in a single -I option.
318 ping6: Try using IPV6_PKTINFO sticky option to specify outgoing interface.
319 rdisc: Use FOPEN_MAX if OPEN_MAX is undefined.
320 ping6: Fix source routing with source interface set.
321 ping,ping6: Don't print extra ', ' in finish().
322 tracepath: Fix documentation typo.
323 Use sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) instead of OPEN_MAX.
324 ping,ping6: Add -D option to print timestamp.
325
326
327[s20071127]
328
329John Heffner (6):
330 [iputils] tracepath: Add length flag to set initial MTU.
331 [iputils] tracepath: Add documentation for the -l flag.
332 [iputils] tracepath: Use PMTUDISC_PROBE mode if it exists.
333 [iputils] tracepath: Document -n flag.
334 [iputils] tracepath: Fix asymm messages.
335 [iputils] tracepath: Re-probe at same TTL after MTU reduction.
336
337YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (8):
338 [DOC]: Delete duplicated lines in RELNOTES.
339 Fix white space errors.
340 [CLOCKDIFF,PING,RDISC,TRACEROUTE6]: Support uClibc.
341 [RARPD]: Fixed several signedness issues for char strings.
342 [PING]: Use inet_pton() instead of sscan().
343 [PING6]: Use IN6_IS_ADDR_xxx() macro.
344 [MAKEFILE]: Change authorized host to push snapshots.
345 [MAKEFILE]: Use git-archive instead of git-tar-tree.
346
347
348[s20070202]
349
350Mike Frysinger (2):
351 Use socklen_t in all the right places.
352 [IPG]: handle pktgen setup in newer kernels.
353
354Mitsuru Chinen (2):
355 [CLOCKDIFF]: Fix compilation errors about labels at end of compound statements.
356 [PING6]: Use getaddrinfo() for the name resolution of intermediate nodes.
357
358YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (9):
359 [MAKEFILE] Remove unused -I../include
360 [TRACEPATH] Print usage if we met incorrect option.
361 [PING6]: Fix compilation error with glibc-2.4 and later.
362 [PING6]: Use getaddrinfo() to allow scoped addresses
363 [PING6]: Ensure not to reverse-lookup if target is numeric address.
364
365
366[s20060512]
367
368YOSHIFUJI Hideaki:
369 [BUILD] Build with standard headers.
370 [ARPING,PING6] Build fix for some old systems.
371
372
373[s20060425]
374
375YOSHIFUJI Hideaki:
376 [TRACEROUTE6] Fix ICMPv6 type printing with -v option
377 [TRACEROUTE6] Mark ICMPv6 messages as known
378 [DOC] Maintainer / Contact change
379 [PING6,TRACEPATH6,TRACEROUTE6] Define SOL_IPV6,SOL_ICMPV6 where needed
380 [TRACEROUTE6] Fix source/destination address with -v option
381 [PING6,TRACEPATH6,TRACEROUTE6] Use new RFC3542 advanced API if available
382 [RDISC] Use proper type for is_directly_connected()
383 [PING,PING6] Use proper type for printf()
384 [TRACEROUTE6] Fix inet_pton() error handling
385 [TRACEROUTE6] Use minimum format if 0 is specified for datalen
386 [TRACEROUTE6] Optimize datalen sanity checking code
387 [TRACEPATH6] Use getaddrinfo() to allow scoped addresses
388 [RDISC] Use strerror(errno) instead of sys_errlist[errno]
389 [PING,PING6] Avoid using __constant_htons() if it is really needed
390 [TRACEPATH6] Fix format for subseconds
391 [ARPING,CLOCKDIFF,PING,PING6,TRACEROUTE6] Check return value from setuid().
392 [PING,PING6] ensure to initialize msg.
393 [MAKEFILE] Make snapshot using git
394
395
396[020927]
397* arping.sgml, some options were forgotten.
398* send seqno in network byte order. Me.
399* Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@suse.de> Recursive citation:
400"On request of Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@suse.de> I've added manpages
401pregenerated from the Docbook sources. One could argue it is redundant
402when the Docbook sources are also there, but the argument of not having
403to install Docbook on a very small system to get the man pages was
404convinving enough to me. To quote Mads Martin: "How would a system
405be without a man page for ping?"
406 As a chilidish revenge from my side enjoy with cyrillic date in these
407 man pages. :-)
408* Ken Cox <jkc@redhat.com>. Bogus definition of SOCK_DRGAM&SOCK_STREAM on mips.
409* Error returned from recvmsg() resulted in a bogus printout in traceroute6. Me.
410* Use IPV6_CHECKSUM on icmp socket in traceroute6. Me.
411* Noah L. Meyerhans <frodo@morgul.net> Fix to doc.
412!* Noah L. Meyerhans <frodo@morgul.net> What is the problem with "long" triptime?
413! Reporter does not respond. _Malignantly_.
414* Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Ping did not exit sometimes!
415* Add option -W to override default 10 second linger timeout. Me.
416* Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@suse.de>: ping should not bind to autoselected
417 source address, it used to work when routing changes. Return classic
418 behaviour, option -B is added to enforce binding.
419* Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> Forgotten \n messing output of ping6.
420* Noah L. Meyerhans <frodo@morgul.net> traceroute6 -q 1 did not work.
421* Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> various sizeof() cleanups in traceroute6.c
422* "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@alt-linux.org> wrote:
423 > ping (as well as other utilities) may open raw socket with descriptor <=2;
424 > In case of suid-root, it can be used by malicious user to send data to
425 > this raw socket.
426 >
427 > Yes, modern glibc and some kernels have workaround for it, but
428 > IMHO iputils shouldn't rely on this feature.
429 Taken into account, but no changes made.
430* "Tilman Heinrich" <tilHeinrich@web.de> said some scripts are broken
431 when word "packet" disappeared from "100% packet loss". Despite of
432 the inarguable fact that such scripts are truly mad and deserve breaking
433 (sigh... exit codes are too smart concept for script writers, I guess),
434 I have to recognize removing this word carrying zero information
435 was not enough motivated. Returned.
436* ping used to retry forever when seeing ENOBUFS/ENOMEM without explicitly
437 given deadline. Being logically correct it is bad in practice f.e. when
438 pinging buggy device which locked up with some packets in queue.
439 So, retry for a finite time... let is be lingertime. Fair? Me.
440* Two "messages" are sent to rpm maintainers to make their wrong patches
441 failed.
442* Fix from RH iputils-20001007-deadline.patch. It was lost in the latest
443 rpms btw.
444* Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>: added _unsupported_ option to comppile
445 rdisc_srv.
446
447[020124]
448* Michal Kochanowicz <michal@michal.waw.pl> typos in tracepath.8
449* Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>: undo silly change of ss000305
450 (printing rtt in some funny units). Michael noticed that "sec" is not
451 standard abbreviation for time units (bullshit, of course), but real concern
452 is that it is more difficult to interpret with a neglibible improvement
453 to appearance. So, do this as expected: in "ms".
454* Documentation. Wow! I did it. man pages are disassembled to docbook,
455 audited wrt real state, edited... and promised to be maintained
456 in sync with the state of utilities.
457
458[011202]
459* Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com> Bitops in ping6 were wrong
460 on bigendian machines. Wow, luckily I forgot to acknowledge that patch
461 of 010805 which has gotten rid of kernel bitops and did this so wrongly.
462* Michael Bakunin <bakunin@maphiasoft.org> (:-))
463 found mud in tftpd.c, it will crash when directory supplied in argument
464 is longer ~512 symbols.
465* Alexandr D. Kanevskiy <kad@blackcatlinux.com>: buffer overflow
466 in clockdiff. Very stupid one, the overflowed buffer even was not used. :-)
467* Alexandr D. Kanevskiy <kad@blackcatlinux.com>: shit! Code recognizing
468 kernels with broken IP_RECVERR for raw sockets depended on race
469 and accused even good kernel of being buggy. :-)
470
471[011002]
472* Stepan Koltsov <yozh@mx1.ru>, tracepath/tracepth6 segfaulted when
473 used without address.
474* Alexandr D. Kanevskiy <kad@blackcatlinux.com>: arping printed
475 "permission denied" instead of showing help page to non-superuser.
476
477[010824]
478* Alexandr D. Kanevskiy <kad@blackcatlinux.com>: ping compiled
479 for linux-2.4 forgot to send the second packet, when used with linux-2.2
480* Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>: buffer overflow in traceroute6.
481 datalen was messed: counting header in half of places.
482 Funny, looking into LBL traceroute, it is even worse :-)
483* Alexandr D. Kanevskiy <kad@blackcatlinux.com>: relayed patches
484 by Solar_Diz. Only missing description of option -q is accepted.
485* <ipatel@wilnetonline.net> ping6 printed wrong mtu.
486* Alexandr D. Kanevskiy <kad@blackcatlinux.com>: -Werror is removed.
487 Newer gcc are buggy and generates some wrong warnings about
488 uninitalized variables, which are evidently initialized.
489
490[010805]
491* Some news from Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> around setting tos bits.
492* arping: broadcast-only mode by Ard van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl>
493* ping6/traceroute6: parse ICMP errors with extension headers (me)
494 traceroute6 works with size > mtu now. Nice.
495* ping: Erik Quanstrom <quanstro@clark.net>. Serious patch.
496 ping interval timer was not very broken, but very unintelligible.
497 Though I remade the code to use leaky bucket logic, which
498 is the most transparent one. Anyway, contribution by Eric is
499 the most important one since the previous release.
500 Short theory of operation: option -i (interval) sets rate r=1/interval pps,
501 option -l (preload) sets burst size of l packets. So, ping sends
502 at most r*t+l packets for an arbitrary interval t.
503 Default values: l=1 and for non-flood case: r=1pps, for flood r=infinity.
504 Nice? Exact algorithm is:
505
506 Let N(t) be l/r=l*i initially and N(t) grow continuously with time as:
507
508 N(t+delta) = min{l*i, N(t) + delta}
509
510 Packet can be transmitted only at the time t_* when 1/r=i <= N(t_*)
511 and in this case N(t) jumps:
512
513 N(t_* + 0) = N(t_* - 0) - i.
514
515 When interval is zero, algo degenerates allowing to send any amount
516 of messages. In this case we modify it using l as limit on amount
517 of unanswered requests and waiting for 10msec, when something is not
518 answered. Note that the last thing (10msec) is just to be compatible with
519 BSD manual pages. BSD ping is simply not able to avoid delay technically,
520 we are able now.
521
522 In result we got some new facilities:
523 * "-f -l 100" becomes very aggressive, in fact on good link
524 it holds permanently 100 packets in flight, which is very different
525 of earlier bevaviour (one packet in flight).
526 * -f and -i are not incompatible more. In fact, "-f -i 1" is equivalent
527 to plain ping, only output is different (dotted). Essentially,
528 change of output format is the only effect. "ping -i 0" is flood
529 printing output in normal format.
530
531 Moved some parts of code to ping_common.c. Common part is not fully
532 trivial now. :-)
533
534* ping: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>, larger and dynamic dup detector.
535 Also, Ian submitted two large patches, one fixing formatting, another
536 doing something with signedness/longness. Not now...
537 Later note: found not working. x + 7 / 8 :-). Sorry... dubious, withdrawn.
538 size of table increased to maximal value instead (8K of memory,
539 not a big deal).
540* tftpd: an old misprint. left@sbor.spb.su (Igor A. Lefterov)
541* clockdiff: do not fail, if reversed resolution failed.
542 Tommy Lacroix <tommyl@zeroknowledge.com>
543* ping: audible ping by Patrik Schilt <patrik@bnc.ch>
544 Patrick's option renamed to -a to align to freebsd.
545* ping: react to device queue overflows using IP_RECVERR. me.
546* ping: option -S allows to change sndbuf
547* rarpd is moved from separate package here (people asked)
548* ping6: kernel style bitops are not used more.
549* Option -A to adapt to network rtt.
550* Use BPF, when multiple pings are detected.
551
552[001110]
553* ping is able to select TOS. By Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
554* tracepath* DNS names. By Pawel Krawczyk <kravietz@ceti.com.pl> and
555 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@pld.org.pl>
556* ping6 is expected to be compiled with linux-2.2.
557
558[001011]
559* RH bugid#16677: segfault, when ping is used by root and size
560 is large enough. Fix is to allow oversize by root (it is necessary
561 to check kernel side), but clamp it at some safe value.
562
563[001010]
564* More bug fixes from Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
565 - do not trust h_length returned by system resolver.
566 This value is meaningless in any case.
567 - ping: buffer overflow in fill()!!! Disgraceful bug.
568
569* ping: allow not-priviledged users to use broadcasts. It was paranoia.
570 Multicasts were allowed. 8)
571* ping: but force broadcasts&multicasts not to fragment. BSD does
572 not allow to do this to anyone, we still allow this for superuser.
573* Option -M to control path mtu discovery.
574
575[001007]
576* By Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
577 - SIOCGSTAMP/SO_TIMESTAMP are sensitive to bug in kernel.
578 When get_fast_time != gettimeofday (f.e. timestampless x86),
579 returned stamp can be out of sync with gettimeofday.
580 Workaround is not to use SIOCGSTAMP/SO_TIMESTAMP on such systems.
581 - fixes in man pages
582 - compiles under rh-7.0
583* Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
584 - ping: possible buffer overflow in pr_addr().
585
586[000928]
587* Sorry. I have lost all the CVS with changes made since 000418.
588 If someone sent me a patch after this date, please, resubmit.
589 Restored from the last backup and mailboxes:
590
591* ping*, SO_TIMESTAMP support.
592* ping*, allow zero data length (reported by Damjan Lango <damjan.lango@hermes.si>)
593* iputils man and help updates. Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi>
594* ping.8, fix to ping man page. By Dadid Eisner <cradle@glue.umd.edu>
595* ping prints addresses in numeric, if destination is numeric.
596 Proposed by Tim Waugh <twaugh@meme.surrey.redhat.com>
597
598New:
599* ping: strncpy bug <typo@inferno.tusculum.edu>
600* arping: improvements by Charles Howes <croot@micro-logistics.com>
601 - a feature to arping: quit as soon as a reply is received.
602 - default to eth0.
603 - spelling
604
605[000418]
606* llsqrt() was buggy again!
607 (noticed by Sam Farin <sfarin@ratol.fi>)
608
609[000404]
610* tracepath*, "NURDUnet-gw" bug workaround.
611 (noticed by Vitaly E.Lavrov <lve@aanet.ru>)
612* tracepath*, handle case of routers initializing rtt to 128.
613 Vitaly E.Lavrov <lve@aanet.ru>
614* shadowed icmp_sock in ping6. James Morris <jmorris@@intercode.com.au>
615* Bug in ping -f, introduced with SO_RCVTIMEO. me.
616* llsqrt() (ping, ping6) was wrong yet. me.
617
618[000310]
619* Print mean deviation of RTT in ping/ping6.
620* Use SIOCGSTAMP in ping/ping6. Old behaviour calculating
621 true user-to-user latency is restored with option -U.
622 Reason for this stupid change is mainly political; people
623 wonder why freebsd has twice less latency on loopback.
624 If to follow along this line, we have to print rtt equal to 0. 8)
625 [ LATER NOTE: actually, the change is _right_ without any doubts.
626 Ping has another bug: nameresolver is blocking, so that
627 when it dies not respond, ping shows evenly increasing by 1 sec
628 RTT. It is very confusing (look through linux-kernel maillists
629 to count number of people, who were cheated by misconfigured dns). ]
630* Use SO_RCVTIMEO instead of poll() with ping/ping6 -f.
631* Added -V option to arping/ping/ping6/traceroute6/rdisc
632 to print snapshot number.
633
634[000305]
635* rdisc: ugly bug in getting interface list. me.
636* ping/ping6: ping -i N, N>=3 did not work. Jeff Jonson <jbj@redhat.com>
637* ping/ping6: microsecond rtt measurements. me.
638
639[000120]
640* ping/ping6: non-zero exit code even without -w.
641
642[991024]
643* Option "-i" to ping/ping6 takes fractional time now, so that
644 "ping -i 0.3 xxx" pings each 300 msec. The idea is by
645 Marc Boucher <marc@mbsi.ca>
646* alpha/glibc-2.1 alignment problems in ping are fixed (struct timeval
647 was wrongly aligned).
648
649[990915]
650* ping/ping6 worked only with kernels 2.3.15+ in 990824.
651
652[990824]
653* tftpd is added. It uses MSG_CONFIRM to confirm arp entries.
654* ping6: workaround for bug in some egcs versions.
655
656[990610]
657* ping: output buffer was too small for full sized ping.
658* ping: silly restriction on ping size is removed.
659
660[990530]
661* short man pages (Oleg M. Shumsky <oms@cp.tomsk.su>)
662* ping6: get and print hop limit of reply packets (ME)
663* rdisc deletes routes before exit with -TERM
664* ping/ping6: option -w TIMEOUT
665* arping: exit with error, if received no replies in normal
666 (not DAD and not unsilicited ARP) mode.
667