Status Report #12 of 17

["Luis M." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

Hi!

Already week 12! I'm glad to say that most Nping's basic functionality
is already implemented so it would be great if you guys could download
it and give it a try. Some things may not work properly due to a big
change to use nsock architecture so now should be a good time to
catch some bugs. BTW, here are some of the accomplishments of last week
and priorities for this week:


Accomplishments:

* Big architectural experimental change. For portability reasons Nping
  is being modified to not use threads. Now it uses a single-thread
  approach based on nsock.
* Added support for ARP/RARP packet generation.
* Implemented UDP unprivileged mode.
* Finished implementation of Ethernet frame generation.
* Fixed a bug in ARPHeader class caused by the c++ compiler adding
  paddings to members of the ARP header struct.
* Added missing options to help screen. Output cleaned a little bit.
* Fixed a bug in devname2ipaddr() that affected both nmap and nping.
* Minor cleanup: Removed white space at the end of lines in all files.
* Fixed bug in --source-mac option parsing
* Added support for ARP/RARP packet output.
* Improved Echo protocol specification document.
* Added option --data-string that lets the user to include a custom
  ASCII string as payload.
* Fixed a bug in ICMP checksum computation. Checksums were not being
  computed correctly when user requested inclusion of payloads
* Modes ARP,RARP,ARP_RESPONSE and RARP_RESPONSE merged into mode ARP
  so it is consistent with the rest of protocols.

Priorities:

* Continue working on Nping man page.
* Test the new nsock-based approach.
* Test new UDP-Unprivileged mode.
* Start porting Nping to Windows.
* Start thinking about Echo Mode implementation.



Regards,


Luis.

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