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From: unobe@cpan.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] DNS/ICMP via sshnet(4) or drawterm
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:14:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34F7A5E47A938C760E0970ED1E8FC757@smtp.pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <051BE365BDD4F4BC4AF19C6300D44B62@eigenstate.org>

Quoth ori@eigenstate.org:
> > My other major use case is ping.  I see that there is such a thing as
> > ping-over-tcp.  I suppose one of the use cases for providing
> > ping-over-tcp is seeing if packet-shaping is having an impact on a
> > connection.  That would suggest to me that ip/ping would be modified,
> > or just a separate utility.
> > 
> 
> I don't think ICMP forwarding is worth the effort;
> it's ok to just not have it.

Right, I wasn't thinking of ICMP forwarding proper, but from what I
read online it's sending an ACK or SYN packet and measure the respones
time.  Maybe there's something that already does that, or it's trivial
to do.

Anyway, thanks again for the reply re: DNS-overTCP.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-03 21:28 Romano
2023-10-03 22:42 ` ori
2023-10-03 23:02   ` unobe
2023-10-04  1:04     ` ori
2023-10-04  1:14       ` unobe [this message]
2023-10-04  8:35         ` hiro
2023-10-27 11:28     ` mkf9
2023-10-27 13:59       ` ori

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