ping

Simple (ICMP) library patterned after net/http.

Originally inspired by sparrc/go-ping

Installation

go get -du github.com/glinton/ping

To install an all-go iputils patterned ping binary

go get github.com/glinton/ping/cmd/ping
# to run:
$GOPATH/bin/ping localhost

Example

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/glinton/ping"
)

func main() {
	res, err := ping.IPv4(context.Background(), "google.com")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Completed one ping to google.com with %d bytes in %v\n",
		res.TotalLength, res.RTT)
}

Notes Regarding ICMP Socket Permissions

System installed ping binaries generally have setuid attributes set, thus allowing them to utilize privileged ICMP sockets. This should work for applications built with this library as well, but a better approach would be to give the application the capability to create privileged ICMP sockets. To do so, run the following as the root user (not applicable to Windows).

setcap cap_net_raw=eip /path/to/your/application

This library tries to initialize a privileged ICMP socket before falling back to unprivileged raw sockets on Linux and Darwin (udp4 or udp6 as the network). On Linux, the system group of the user running the application must be allowed to create unprivileged ICMP sockets if desired. See man pages icmp(7) for ping_group_range.

To allow a range of groups access to create unprivileged icmp sockets on linux (ipv4 or ipv6), run:

sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ping_group_range="GROUPID_START GROUPID_END"

If you plan to run your application as root, the aforementioned commmand is not necessary.

On Windows, running a terminal as admin should not be necessary.

Known Issues

There is currently no support for TTL on windows, track progress at golang/go#7175 and golang/go#7174

Report any other issues you may find here