Phoenix.pm: Net::Ping Object

[Eden Li]

nitpicky is fine as long as you don't become a tom christensen :)

eden

From: "Scott Walters" <phaedrus at illogics.org>
> I hate disagreeing with people, and don't mean to nitpick, but
> ICMP is a seperate protocol, that is part of the TCP/IP suite
> (protocol number 0, incidientally), as are TCP and UDP. ICMP pings
> (eg, with the ping command) does not generate UDP traffic. You
> can replicate this by running "tcpdump udp" then pinning that host
> from another host. Conversely, "tcpdump icmp" will be very chatty =)
> At the risk of being one of those annying know-it-alls, I hope
> this clears things up a bit...