shell vs. process

[Luis]

Hiya,

ICMPd sends the data packets in either TCP or UDP over that port  
number, check IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

Here is the packet structure: http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ 
intro_to_data_com/page253.html

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Luis.


On 10 Oct 2006, at 0:10, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> 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
> Blue Mango Learning Systems - www.bluemangolearning.com
> trevor at bluemangolearning.com
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