Re: [MacPerl] Pings from MacPerl

[Eric Dobbs <dobbs@epost.com>]

At 12:04 PM -0400 5/28/99, peter furmonavicius wrote:
>Hello.  I guess I'm resurrecting a question that has been discussed before.
>I would like to 'ping' other Macs (running OT) from a Macs using MacPerl.
>Has anyone actually gotten this to work?


Since it's my question you're resurrecting, I'll post what I know.

ping comes in several flavors.  MacPerl knows two: tcp and udp.
But most Macs these days only know the icmp flavor, which MacPerl
doesn't know.

When I originally raised the question, I ended up dodging the
issue by running an app that would listen for tcp or udp pings.
That app was MacTCPwatcher, if I remember correctly, but I've
long since abandoned that whole scheme -- so the details are
fuzzy.  In my case I only had one server I needed to ping from
many clients, so this was the easiest solution.

Hope that helps.
-Eric



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