Subject: Re: RFC 8335 on PROBE: A Utility for Probing Interfaces

From: Job Snijders <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:00:53 +0000

Dear all,

Are there any open source reference implementations available for this
utility?

Kind regards,

Job

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 05:34:23PM -0800, [email-masked] wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
>         
>         RFC 8335
> 
>         Title:      PROBE: A Utility for Probing 
>                     Interfaces 
>         Author:     R. Bonica,
>                     R. Thomas,
>                     J. Linkova,
>                     C. Lenart,
>                     M. Boucadair
>         Status:     Standards Track
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       February 2018
>         Mailbox:    [email-masked], 
>                     [email-masked], 
>                     [email-masked],
>                     [email-masked], 
>                     [email-masked]
>         Pages:      19
>         Characters: 35084
>         Updates:    RFC 4884
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-intarea-probe-10.txt
> 
>         URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8335
> 
>         DOI:        10.17487/RFC8335
> 
> This document describes a network diagnostic tool called PROBE.
> PROBE is similar to PING in that it can be used to query the status
> of a probed interface, but it differs from PING in that it does not
> require bidirectional connectivity between the probing and probed
> interfaces.  Instead, PROBE requires bidirectional connectivity
> between the probing interface and a proxy interface.  The proxy
> interface can reside on the same node as the probed interface, or it
> can reside on a node to which the probed interface is directly
> connected.  This document updates RFC 4884.
> 
> This document is a product of the Internet Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> This is now a Proposed Standard.
> 
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