From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T22:43:19+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_sys_fail(socket(2)) - errno == 0



On Aug 6, 4:17 am, "Heesob Park" <pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/6 Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> > Glen Holcomb wrote:
>
> >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Phill Davies
> >> <binary011...@verizon.net>wrote:
>
> >>> You can use Ping from the Ruby standard library.
>
> >>> require 'ping'
> >>> Ping.pingecho "google.com", <timeout>, <port>
>
> >>> Where timeout is the number of seconds to wait for a reply (defaults to
> >>> 5) and port is the port to use (defaults to the 'echo' port)
>
> >>> Unless you have something more specific you are trying to do this ought
> >>> to work.
>
> >>> Glen Holcomb wrote:
>
> >>>> That is the error message I get when I try either of these methods for
> >>>> creating an ICMP packet:
>
> >>>> socket = Socket.new(Socket::PF_INET, Socket::SOCK_RAW,
> >>>> Socket::IPPROTO_ICMP)
>
> >>>> or
>
> >>>> with net-ping
>
> >>>> icmp = Ping::ICMP.new('machine_name')
>
> >>>> icmp.ping?
>
> >>>> I am on Windows XP.  The account I'm logged in as has local
> >>>> administrator
> >>>> rights.
>
> >>>> What I'm trying to do is check to see if a system is up before I try and
> >>>> make a WIN32OLE connection to it as they take forever to time-out
>
> > It's a problem with the socket.so file that ships with the one click
> > installer. Take a look at this ticket for more information:
>
> >http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=167&aid=9438&atid=715
>
> The socket.so has nothing to do with this problem.
> It's a problem with the msvcrt-ruby18.dll file.
>
> That bug is related to the winsock2 compatibility.
>
> The OCI version was built with the flag '--with-winsock2'.
> If you build ruby without '--with-winsock2', it will work fine.

My bad. Thanks for the clarification.

Dan