Hi there! Thanks for taking a look at my project! I have been wanting to learn go and I decided this was a great opportunity and project to jump into it with. Given this, please excuse any antipatterns or code smells I might have let slip by.
I was not able to get non-priviledged ICMP packets working on my machine (see: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/net/icmp#PacketConn) so I had to do the project assuming priveledged mode (sudo).
Ensure you have installed:
- "golang.org/x/net/icmp"
- "golang.org/x/net/ipv4"
- "golang.org/x/net/ipv6"
And go itself of course!
In the src directory:
go build main.go
sudo ./main google.com
and you should be pinging google with RTT, Average latency and more being reported.
General usage:
sudo ./main <domain or ip>
OR
sudo ./main <domain or ip> -c <# of pings>
I have implemented support for ipv6 but can not test it as my ISP does not seem to support ipv6 at the moment according to https://test-ipv6.com/. Even the ping command is not working with ipv6 addresses on my machine. My program currently reports sendto: network is unreachable for these addresses so I would love if whoever takes a look at this can test out my ipv6 support!
I also implemented the -c flag from the ping man page if you would like the program to terminate after a certain # of pings.
