[6bone] doubt about protocol independent Ping.

[Antonio Querubin]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

> 	Stevens' book (TCP/IP network programming) has very old description of
> 	protocol independent programming, so do not refer it.  rather, please
> 	refer the following:
> 	http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/
> 	http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/metzprotocol/

Steven's book has many detailed examples of coding in a protocol
independent manner that continue to be applicable even today.  The API
hasn't changed that much in 5 years to make it the book so obsolete that
it should no longer be referred to.  While the above 2 articles talk about
protocol independent issues, they're a bit sparse for reference use by
someone learning a new API.