I assume the device you are trying to reach has some purpose. If so send it a purposeful packet. For example, you are running a web server on the device in question, open a connection to port 80 with your telnet utility and talk to it.
Marc Sissom Krypton Solutions -----Original Message----- From: devel [mailto:devel-boun...@riot-os.org] On Behalf Of Baptiste Clenet Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 11:21 AM To: RIOT OS kernel developers <devel@riot-os.org> Subject: Re: [riot-devel] Easy ping Yes but it's not as easy as I want (shell command) Tell me the easiest possible function to know if an address is reachable or not :-) 2016-09-23 17:56 GMT+02:00 Martine Lenders <m...@martine-lenders.eu>: > Hi Baptiste, > have you had a look at the implementation of the ping shell command? > Another way would be to (re-)implement ping using conn_ip (or sock if > merged). In that case, if you want it reaaaally easy you don't even > have to implement ICMPv6 ping but can do whatever you want ;-). > > Cheers, > Martine > > 2016-09-23 17:18 GMT+02:00 Baptiste Clenet <bapcle...@gmail.com>: >> Hi, >> >> How can I easily ping a board by software (without using shell) so I >> ping( IPV6_address) and I get -1 for error (not reachable) or 0 for >> success? >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Baptiste >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> devel@riot-os.org >> https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@riot-os.org > https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Baptiste _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org https://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
