How to design ping application in java..which should take TTL, Payload, number of packets sent etc as arguments

Question

I don't know how to access header fields of a packet and how to generate ICMP and IP packet in java.

  InetAddress ia = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
  int port = 7;

  DatagramPacket dp = new DatagramPacket(data, data.length, ia, port);

Is this a right way or I am going in wrong direction?

possible duplicate of [java code to ping an IP address](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11506321/java-code-to-ping-an-ip-address) — DavidPostill, Aug 28 '14 at 21:05

icza · Answer 1 · 2014-08-28T19:24:10.417

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Wrong direction. It is not possible to send ICMP packets in pure Java.

It would require to implement it in another language like C and call it via JNI.

edited Aug 28 '14 at 19:24

answered Aug 28 '14 at 19:10

icza

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