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Link layer (layer 2) ping utility
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This program is similar to ping(1), but tests connectivity at the link layer (layer-2) instead of the network layer (layer-3). HPUX has linkloop support for ages, and lately I googled a little and found that link-layer connectivity loopback testing is part of the IEEE 802.2LLC standard. So I went and written: - linkloop for Linux. - linkloop_reply as a user space reply program. Used for testing against Linux until the Linux kernel has native support for this protocol (in my TODO :-) - lanscan is a small utility to show local interfaces with their mac addresses. Yes I know 'ip link' gives the same information, I just wanted to play with some ioctls :-) To get me started I grabbed some examples from spak http://www.xenos.net/software/spak/ (Which wasn't compiling cleanly on my machine BTW). It was tested against HPUX-11.0 and Linux (when running linkloop_reply) both ways. My linkloop accepts MAC address in: - HPUX notation (0x......) - Colon separated (00:BC:.....) - A name from /etc/ethers
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