orf/gping

Could not detect ping command type

presianbg opened this issue · 4 comments

presianbg commented

Hi,

I'm having the following error when trying to use the tool on Solus linux:

Error: Could not detect ping command type

Caused by:
    Could not detect ping. Stderr: []
    Stdout: ["ping (GNU inetutils) 2.2", "Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]

./gping --version                                                                                                                                                                                  
gping 1.4.0
commit_hash: d8d38bc6
build_time: 2022-09-19 20:18:53 +00:00
build_env: rustc 1.63.0 (4b91a6ea7 2022-08-08),

ping (GNU inetutils) 2.2
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Sergey Poznyakoff.

Any ideas what might be the problem of this ?

Cheers,
PY

presianbg commented

Looks like the ping package from https://github.com/iputils/iputils is needed.
Closing.

orf commented

Hey! This is still an issue, I'm going to reopen this now and add support for iptuils ping

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presianbg commented

Hey! This is still an issue, I'm going to reopen this now and add support for iptuils ping

Nice, but ping from inetutils is the one which should be added, not iputils :)

orf commented

Unfortunately inetutils doesn't seem to support outputting timeout messages. It only outputs messages when pings are returned, and also you need to use a different binary name for ipv6?

I've made a change in b91c59c to throw an error when inetutils is used, telling people to use iptools instead.

Sorry!