[Savannah-register-public] [task #6152] Submission of Linkloop

[Oron Peled]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?6152>

                 Summary: Submission of Linkloop
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: oron
            Submitted on: Saturday 11/25/06 at 21:41
         Should Start On: Saturday 11/25/06 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Tuesday 12/05/06 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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= Registration Details =

* Name: *Linkloop*
* System Name:  *linkloop*
* Type: non-GNU software &amp; documentation
* License: GNU General Public License V2 or later

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Description: This program is similar to ping(1), but tests connectivity at
the
link layer (layer-2) instead of the network layer (layer-3).

HPUX has linkloop support for ages, and lately I googled a little
and found that link-layer connectivity loopback testing is part
of the IEEE 802.2LLC standard.

So I went and written:
        - linkloop for GNU/Linux.
        - linkloop_reply as a user space reply program. Used for
          testing against GNU/Linux until the Linux kernel has native
          support for this protocol (in my TODO :-)
        - lanscan is a small utility to show local interfaces
          with their mac addresses. Yes I know 'ip link' gives
          the same information, I just wanted to play with some
          ioctls :-)

To get me started I grabbed some examples from spak
   http://www.xenos.net/software/spak/
   http://fresh.t-systems-sfr.com/linux/src/spak-0.6b.tar.gz/
(Which is GPL'ed).

It was tested against HPUX-11.0 and GNU/Linux (when running linkloop_reply)
both ways.

My linkloop accepts MAC address in:
        - HPUX notation (0x......)
        - Colon separated (00:BC:.....)
        - A name from /etc/ethers


Other Software Required: None.








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