From: Pat Eyler <rubypate@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T21:32:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ping.rb

On 2/23/06, Daniel Berger <djberg96@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Pat Eyler <rubypate@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ping.rb has bothered me for a while for two reasons.
> >  First, it really ought
> > to be
> > Net::Ping.  Second, it ought to do more than just
> > TCP pings.  I've started
> > to hack
> >  on a replacement.
>
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/net-ping/

*sigh*   /me should have checked harder.

>
> No ICMP ping yet, though, mainly because there's
> already a separate package on the RAA that does that.
>


probably we should merge the best parts of the three and
move them all into the stdlib then.   Having a second class
ping distributed with Ruby just seems wrong.

> - Dan
>
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