From: Al Chou <hotfusionman@...>
Date: 2001-07-10T15:18:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17594] Re: low-level TCP/IP manipulations?

--- Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, matz.  I guess I'll have a look at the C source for Socket tomorrow to
figure out whether I can do it.  The fact that this is my first foray into
network programming isn't helping (can't I just have a project I can solve with
a parallel message passing library?). <g>


Al

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