pingo

Fast and lightweight ping library for Golang with multi-host support.

Features

• ICMP sockets:
  • UDP port 0 means "let the kernel pick a free number"
  • ICMP Echo Message ID is UDP port, so multiple instances of Pinger do not collide
• Support for custom setsockopt(2) and sendmsg(2) options
• Support for Linux kernel RX and TX timestamps with SO_TIMESTAMPING
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• ICMP sequence numbers manager (no random): O(1) time, 256kB of memory
• Context awareness

Requirements

• go >= 1.18
• Linux kernel >= 3.11

You may need to adjust ping_group_range sysfs to allow the creation of ICMP sockets:

$ echo 0 2147483647 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ping_group_range

Example

Here is a simple traceroute(8) implementation:

dst := net.IPv4(8, 8, 8, 8)

p, err := New(nil)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Println(err)
	return
}
defer p.Close()

ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
var g errgroup.Group
g.Go(func() error {
	return p.Listen(ctx)
})
defer func() {
	cancel()
	if err := g.Wait(); !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}
}()

for ttl := uint8(1); ttl < math.MaxUint8-1; ttl++ {
	fmt.Printf("%3d: ", ttl)
	r, err := p.PingContextTimeout(ctx, dst, 1*time.Second, TTL(ttl))
	if errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
		// no answer from current hop
		fmt.Println("...")
		continue
	}
	from := dst
	switch err := err.(type) {
	case nil:
	case TimeExceededError:
		from = err.From()
	default:
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Printf("%-15s %s\n", from, r.RTT)
	if err == nil {
		return
	}
}
fmt.Println("TTL maxed out")