Re: [MacPerl] ICMP

[Strider <Strider@baka.com>]

[snip]
>I don't know the exact reason why, but you can't send ICMP echo from
>MacPerl.  On Unix, ICMP echo is a privileged operation, so you must have
>uid 0 in order to do it.  There's a Net::Ping in the CPAN archives (the
>author's name escapes me at the moment) which does ICMP, UDP, and TCP echo.
>I've modified it to work under MacPerl (but obviously no ICMP), and you can
>find it at <ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/Scripts/>.  (The
>modification was simply that MacPerl doesn't know the port number for the
>TCP/UCP echo service, so I told it.)
[snap]

So, it would seem that there is no way to do ICMP on MacPerl... that seems
like a signifigant drawback. Any possibility of seeing it in the future?

-seraph



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