Add support for verifying reply addresses #172
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--------- Co-authored-by: sa-linetco <[email protected]>
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Hey @danielzzz , when you get a chance, could you please take a look at this PR? Let me know if you spot anything that needs changing. Thanks! |
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On linux platform when using ping from iptuils there is an issue when some misbehaving hosts or other network devices may respond to a ping with a different address. The ping implementation of
iputilsunfortunately regards those as valid replies and prints the timing information nevertheless see: comparison of source address with target and the corresponding statistics outputWe observed an issues with host being detected as alive when another misbehaving hosts replies to the echo requests. This PR Addresses the issue by adding an option to enable verification of reply addresses.