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sn00p

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Nov 10, 2009
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Hi,

I'm the author of an application called pingnoo which is used to monitor network latency/packet loss. It's been a "lockdown" project for me.

I've had a user report that they can't get it to work on macOS. I'm a Mac user myself and macOS is the platform I do the bulk of development on (the application also runs on Linux and Windows), so it's the platform that actually gets the most testing, so I'm somewhat surprised to hear this.

I'm being told that after starting a trace, the application never gets to the point of displaying data. I'm unable to repeat this on Big Sur, it works every time for me, user says they have no firewall and that an earlier version does work. I downloaded the DMG from github myself just to double check and it worked as expected, I've asked for further information but was wondering if anybody can download it and try running a trace to 1.1.1.1 and see what happens.

It can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/nedrysoft/pingnoo

It's currently only an x86_64 app, I did have it running natively on a DTK, but I'm not currently producing arm builds.

I'd really appreciate if people can let me know whether it works for them or not (and if so, what OS and CPU arch) so that I can try to figure out if there is a more wide spread issues.

Thanks
 

DJLC

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Seems to work for me. It never actually stops doing the trace, but it does start and show data along the way.

Intel / macOS 11.2.3

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sn00p

macrumors regular
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Nov 10, 2009
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Seems to work for me. It never actually stops doing the trace, but it does start and show data along the way.

Intel / macOS 11.2.3
Thanks for testing. I had done a fair amount of different trials on different clean installations of various macOS versions under VMware Fusion without seeing a problem. I left it running in a Catalina VM overnight and I didn't experience any issues either.
 

sn00p

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Nov 10, 2009
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It's now provided as a universal binary as I bought an M1 mac and was able to reproduce my steps from when I received my DTK.
 
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