From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-07-10T15:06:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17593] Re: low-level TCP/IP manipulations?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:17560] low-level TCP/IP manipulations?"
    on 01/07/10, Al Chou <hotfusionman@yahoo.com> writes:

|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.

Hmm, I'm sorry that I don't know how to "TCP/IP No Listener error
code", even in C, but Socket class provides pretty direct access to
low level socket, so that it might be useful for your task.

							matz.