From: teespy <teespy@...>
Date: 2001-07-10T12:35:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17590] Re: low-level TCP/IP manipulations?

> Hi, all,
> This question may be naive or just plain stupid, but searching the list archive
> for "TCP" and "IP" didn't turn up anything that looked relevant, so here goes.
> I'm testing some network hardware and software and (think I) need to be able to
> manipulate TCP and/or IP at kind of a low level.  For instance, one of my test
> cases includes the requirement "device should return a TCP/IP No Listener error
> code".  I'm writing an emulator for this device in Ruby and wondering whether I
> can get such fine-grained control over network communications from within Ruby.

I think it would be nice to have a port of Mike Shiffman�s libnet[1] to ruby for things like this.
I would work on this if I were skilled enough, but I�m not :) (yet, hopefully)

Anybody wants to try such a project ?

bye

--teespy

[1] www.packetfactory.net/libnet