From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T02:58:04+09:00
Subject: Re: cidr.rb: port of Perl's Net::CIDR v0.11 available

    Hi Dave,

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:35:13PM +0900, 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').

I'm aware of those but they lack some features the Perl version has. Notably
ICMP support and returning timing information.

It would also be nice for there to be a single Net::Ping class, just like the
Perl version provides, wrapping/hiding the specialized classes. That seems
like an easy addition.

> Pat Eyler wrote in May about pushing an ICMP-capable version of net/ping
> into the standard library for 1.8.6.

/me crosses fingers...

Cheers,
-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com