* Use the new plugin functionality available and build the dns, random and whois
plugins by default.
* The postgresql and ldap plugins can be optionally built by setting
PKG_OPTIONS.echoping.
6.0.1 (2007-04-04)
* Bug fixes only
6.0.0 (2007-03-26)
* Plugins: several plugins (whois, postgresql, dns) are now
shipped with echoping and you can write your own. All new
protocols will now be supported via plugins. Consequences:
* you now need an Unix with a working dlopen(3)
* echoping now requires the popt parsing library
* popt: echoping now depends on popt. One main change: options
parsing is lightly different so some scripts *may* break. A
typical example is that "old-school" Unix aggreation of arguments
("echoping -v4 localhost") is no longer accepted (use "echoping -v
-4 localhost").
* Many bug fixes, see the list at Sourceforge
Changes:
5.1.0 (2003-11-09)
* GNU TLS support (alternative to OpenSSL),
* Small licence change,
* Portability fixes (MacOS X)
5.0.1 (2002-11-04)
* Small bug fixes,
* Better error messages with invalid options
5.0.0 (2002-10-11)
* Now uses getnameinfo/getaddrinfo. Two consequences:
- you can compile only on a recent Unix
- you have IPv6 support
* With -v, now able to separate kernel (TCP) and application latency
* Now displays the standard deviation for repeated tests. Warning:
this may break some scripts which parse the output of echoping.
4.2.0 (2001-03-16)
* New -a and -A options to control the proxy/cache (disable caching).
Fixes bug/wish #232324
* Support for microsecond wait (uses usleep)
* New option (-p) to set socket priority (Linux only)
* New option (-P) to set IP Type of Service octet
* Bug fixes: #230384 (SSL records are different from text lines)
"echoping" is a small program to test (approximatively) performances of a
remote host by sending it TCP "echo" (or other protocol) packets.
Inspired by pkg/8652 by Greg A. Woods.
