Add option for packet size
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, networking
Research direction
Start by locating gping's command-line argument parsing and the ICMP packet construction or send path. Check how the current default packet size is set, then verify that a new option changes the sent packet size while preserving the existing default behavior.
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Description
When sending ICMP ping packets, it makes sense to have an adjustable packet size. The default packet size is quite small and may not be representative of the user experience. Online calls with video typically have UDP packets as large as 1000 bytes and more. In particular, larger packets have a significantly higher probability to be dropped, e.g. on a Wifi network.
The standard ping command has a -s parameter to adjust the packets size. Please add such an option to gping.
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