From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T01:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: cidr.rb: port of Perl's Net::CIDR v0.11 available

Dave Burt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > As an aside: anyone have a port of Net::Ping they are willing to share? I'm
> > trying to convert some code (and colleagues!) to Ruby and am running into the
> > "missing libraries" issue...
>
> Check the RAA (and Rubyforge).
>
> For ping, there is 'ping' in the standard library, and 'net/ping' on the
> RAA ('gem install net-ping').
>
> Pat Eyler wrote in May about pushing an ICMP-capable version of net/ping
> into the standard library for 1.8.6.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

Indeed, Pat talked to me about possibly including net-ping in the
standard lib, though it needs a PingICMP class.  It could probably
stand a bit of reorganization, too.

In fact, I still have some code laying around that Sean Chittenden sent
to me a long time ago.  Maybe it's time to revisit that. :)

Regards,

Dan