From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T01:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: cidr.rb: port of Perl's Net::CIDR v0.11 available

On 11/29/06, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Burt wrote:
> > For ping, there is 'ping' in the standard library, and 'net/ping' on the
> > RAA ('gem install net-ping').

ugh!  I hate 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.
>

I've actually done some work on the code, but it's in need of some
documentation and a bit more polish.  The ICMP ping still needs
to be integrated as well.

I just have more ambition than time, talent, and energy.  :(

> 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
>
>
>


-- 
thanks,
-pate
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