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<Pine.LNX.4.30.0104121205590.9370-100000 / leannan.knavery.net>, rise 
<rise / knavery.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, meredith wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone written one? If not, is anyone up to writing one? I've never
> > done any low-level socket stuff, so I could sure use something a bit
> > higher level.
> 
> If you're on a Unix-ish[1] platform I'm working on a Ruby interface to the
> Libnet portable packet generation library which includes resolver
> functions.  I can package them up separately if they'll do the trick
> (mainly they do straight host <-> IP lookups, plus some hardware
> identification) for you.
> 
> > It seems to me that for Ruby to catch on as it should, there needs to be
> > more modules ala Perl.
> 
> It's true, but we're getting there.  In fact Ruby will almost certainly
> have a Libnet interface before Perl does. :)
> 
> [1] Libnet does lots of low level networking, so its portability to Win32
> is in doubt.
>
I'm on Linux and OSX/BSD, so should be useful. Windows? Bletch.

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meredith
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