A pure python ICMP ping implementation using raw sockets.
Project description
A pure python ping implementation using raw sockets.
Note that ICMP messages can only be sent from processes running as root (in Windows, you must run this script as ‘Administrator’).
Original Version from Matthew Dixon Cowles
copyleft 1989-2011 by the python-ping team, see AUTHORS for more details.
license: GNU GPL v2, see LICENSE for more details.
Usage
~/python3-ping$ sudo ./ping.py google.com PYTHON-PING google.com (209.85.148.99): 55 data bytes 64 bytes from google.com (209.85.148.99): icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=56.2 ms 64 bytes from google.com (209.85.148.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=55.7 ms 64 bytes from google.com (209.85.148.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=55.5 ms ----google.com PYTHON PING Statistics---- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 55.468/55.795/56.232 ~/python3-ping]# ./ping.py usage: ping.py [-h] [-q] [-c COUNT] [-W TIMEOUT] [-s PACKET_SIZE] destination ping.py: error: the following arguments are required: destination
TODOs
refactor ping.py
add a “suprocess ping”, with output parser
New Features
CLI interface -> thanks for Yu-Jie Lin to add this feature with argparse module
Contribute
Fork this repo on GitHub and send pull requests. Thank you.
History
See HISTORY.rst.
