Re: What lowlevel protocols are natively available in PHP?

On Wed, August 19, 2009 9:20 pm, chris. wrote: > Greetings, > I've applied for maintainer of the currently unmaintained > Net_Traceroute pear package. If I'm given the opportunity to > be it's maintainer, I'd like to add/enable the full range of UDP, TCP, GRE, > and ICMP that TRACEROUTE(8) provides. I've just completed a PHP traceroute > utility that does just that- it can manipulate (utilize) every option that > TRACEROUTE(8) > provides. But I must use the protocols native to my system (UNIX/BSD) in > order to use it. As NET_Traceroute currently stands - it's broken. PHP(5) > complains that it doesn't make it's calls in a manner compatible with > (current) versions of > PHP. Anyway, if given the role of maintainer of the package, > I'd _really_ like to "jump start" it. But before (possibly) > re-inventing the wheel. I felt I should find out how much PHP already > provides in the way of UDP, TCP, GRE, and ICMP. > > Thank you for all your time and consideration. > > > --Chris P.S. See also: Re: [PHP-DEV] Can we have a "PING" function? for a related discussion in the dev archive > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > --