This project aims at being a pinging (ICMP) and TCP dialing tool.

This code can be used as a normal Go library to include in your Go project. Take a look at the tests in src/moreping/net_dialers* for more details.

The artifact (command) produced when running make shares similarities with other commands like ping, telnet and nmap.

Run make, this will put the command you just built into /usr/local/bin/. For ICMP calls make sure you are running it as sudo.

This code has been tested on:

• Go 1.8
• Linux/amd64
• godep v79

Due to how the ICMP protocol internals along with Linux raw sockets, the ICMP integration tests and the ICMP command executions themselves must be executed as a super user.

• put this mysudo alias into .bashrc to run ginkgo as super user with the context of the normal user (e.g. $PATH evaluated with $GOPATH/bin): alias mysudo='sudo -E env "PATH=$PATH"'
• run the tests: mysudo go test -v ./src/moreping/...

The mysudo alias is needed because of the $GOPATH environment variable which is usually specified for the standard user, not for the super user.

Some examples of usage as a library could be found in the example directory.

• go run example/mainTcp.go
• mysudo go run example/mainIcmp.go (you can use only sudo in case the go command is included in its $PATH environment variable)