Re: What lowlevel protocols are natively available in PHP?

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. http://php.net/fsockopen http://php.net/socket_create sockets support in php is pretty abysmal Greg