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Re: substitute for ping



Hola !

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:39:13PM -0400, hacker wrote:
> My ISP has pings blocked.  Is there some other echo command I can use
> to test my connection?
> 

$ perl -MNet::Ping -e '$p = Net::Ping->new("tcp"); $ip = "somehost" ;  print "I can reach $ip!\n" if $p->ping("$ip", 5.5); '

By default it will try to connect to TCP "echo" port (if the three-way
handshacking has completed ok [between the timeout 5.5] it will return
true, otherwise false) .

Regards.

-- 
  Matías Rollán
  <cygar@safesource.com.ar>



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