Re: What lowlevel protocols are natively available in PHP?

On Thu, August 20, 2009 6:52 am, Greg Beaver wrote: > 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 > > Hello Greg, and thank you for your reply. Yes, I had already read those when initially attempting to determine what might already be available. If that's all there is, it appears that I'll have a lot to do. :( Thanks again for your reply. --Chris