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Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.9.4-1
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 17 19:41, Takashi Yano wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:14:46 +0900
>> Takashi Yano wrote:
>> > ping/ping6 in inetutils also require administrator right as well.
>>
>> I have noticed that current ping package, as well as ping/ping6 in
>> inetutils, works without administrator privilege in Windows 10.
>>
>> It seems that the policy of raw socket access has been changed in
>> Windows 10.
>
> Indeed! Wow. I just checked and apparently this has been implemented
> mainly for WSL, already since build 14926.
>
> The remaining problem is that we still have non-W10 users.
>
> So I think the right thing to do is to keep ping in a separate package.
>
> Marco, the ping you're maintaining isn't IPv6 capable, as far as I can
> see.
surely not. it is the ancient 1983 version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility)
that is lacking a lot of features compared to most recent ones
> Marco and Takashi, what about using ping/ping6 from inetutils but
> providing them in a ping package on their own? Would you mind to
> discuss this between the two of you? Whatever you two come up with is
> fine with me.
I think it is a good idea
Regards
Marco