An alternative to smokeping

I have been using smokeping for 25 years. It’s a great tool that provides a useful and unique data set. The thing about smokeping is that it does not really have a lot of alternatives. To that end, I embarked on an amateurish re-imagining of both smokeping and its contemporary successor, vaping in golang. Initial version supports ping and DNS and has a nearly identical structure to Vaping (why re-invent the wheel?

Go IPv6 utilities

After spending some time with Python, I moved to Go, which seems to suit the way my brain works slightly better (make no mistake, I am still a poor developer). Keeping in line with the work done on this, I endeavored to re-write this in Golang, mostly because the subnet generation in python had some resource issues with large blocks. And off I went. With the help of an LLM to get me past weird errors and inability to compile, the resulting code is surprisingly efficient and useful - available here