On 14 September 2012 11:39, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012/09/13 13:54, Matthew Dempsky wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: >> > This adds a -T portnum option to ping. I haven't polished the output >> > because I'm not sure if this is desirable or not, but I found it >> > useful. If it's not a "hell no, never in base" I can finish it up some. >> >> Is there precedent for having TCP-based ping in any other OS's ping(1) >> utility? It seems like adding a separate tcpping(1) utility and >> leaving ping(1) for ICMP would be more appropriate. > > traceroute allows setting the protocol (though this doesn't work for > tcp yet ;) so I think it would make some sort of sense to do this in > ping/ping6. >
I agree, if this is getting in, it should be on ping :).
