On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 07:32 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:02:27 -0800 Andreas Roeseler wrote: > > The popular utility ping has several severe limitations such as > > an inability to query specific interfaces on a node and requiring > > bidirectional connectivity between the probing and the probed > > interfaces. RFC 8335 attempts to solve these limitations by > > creating the > > new utility PROBE which is an ICMP message that makes use of the > > ICMP > > Extension Structure outlined in RFC 4884. > > > > This patchset adds define statments for the probe ICMP message > > request > > and reply types for both IPv4 and IPv6. It also expands the list of > > supported ICMP messages to accommodate probe messages. > > Did you mean to CC netdev?
Thank you for catching that. I'm new to kernel development and I'm still trying to get my bearings.
