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ValentinBELYN / icmplib

Easily forge ICMP packets and make your own ping and traceroute.
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ping and ICMPReply does not contain ttl information for IPv4 #2

Closed leo-liu closed 4 years ago

leo-liu commented 4 years ago

I notice that both high level ping/multiping and low level ICMPReply do not contain ttl information, which is useful.

And I think it is easy to retrive the ttl in ICMPv4Socket

ValentinBELYN commented 4 years ago

You are right. This is a useful information. Besides, I have already noticed and implemented it, but the code is not yet committed. I work in parallel on other projects, which leaves me less time at the moment. I hope to commit this week.

ValentinBELYN commented 4 years ago

icmplib was designed to offer features based on the ICMPv4 and ICMPv6 protocols. If I add a functionality on ICMPv4, I have to do the same with ICMPv6 to stay consistent and not create asymmetry. Unfortunately, I have no way of accessing the IPv6 header to retrieve the information you want.

I keep the idea in mind but for the moment I close this issue. Thanks for contributing.