shell vs. process

[Trevor DeVore]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Luis wrote:

> ICMPd is the daemon ('shell app') that runs the request over that  
> port. It would be a case of recreating the ICMPd functionality in  
> Rev, all it's doing is sending specifically formed packets over  
> that port that servers/routers/etc running their own ICMPd will  
> respond to.
>
> It's a small app. If anyone else is interested then I might have a  
> look at the code (should be able to get a hold of the C/C++ source  
> code) and attempt to translate it to Transcript. Not too sure how  
> tight I can get the timings, but it should be accurate enough.

Luis,

I'm no expert in this area and I would love to learn that you can  
write your own ping utility in Rev.  I researched this a few days ago  
in an attempt to do so.  Creating the actual ICMP echo request  
message isn't a big deal in Rev.  I *think* the problem you would  
have is when that message gets wrapped up in the IP Datagram  
structure which I believe Rev does when you write to a socket.  The  
docs say that Rev's open socket command only uses "TCP" and "UDP" so  
there doesn't seem to be a way to send data over a socket that  
identifies itself as the ICMP protocol.  I would think that ping  
daemons would only watch for traffic that was send using the ICMP  
protocol but I don't know.


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Trevor DeVore
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