trying to write a ping program
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trying to write a ping program
by cassiej1 on Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:28 am
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Can someone PLEASE point me toward some tutorials that will help me to be able to code a pinger I already wrote the code to generate a list of ips and now i want to write the code to ping these ips. thanks for the help
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Re: trying to write a ping program
by Goatboy on Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:33 pm
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You will either need to use a library that will handle the gory details for you, or you'll need to read up on crafting packets by hand. I haven't done a ton of socket coding in C, but there's an excellent guide by a guy named Beej. Look it up.
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Re: trying to write a ping program
by thetan on Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:26 pm
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Beej's guide has been a timeless classic in network programming.
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
Beej's guide is what The C Programming Language (K&R) is for C, what Donald Knuth's TOACP is for algorithms, what MIT's SICP (the wizard book) is for language and what Compilers: Principals, Techniques and Tools (The dragon book) is fro compiler theory.
Anyways, if you want to implement a traditional pinger similar to the ping command line tool, you'll have to send ICMP packets. Standard sockets typically only allow for the sending of data of TCP or UDP packets (that the kernel creates for you) that sit on top of the IP protocol. ICMP like IP is an OSI layer 3 protocol that sits directly on a layer 2 protocol (typically ethernet frames).
in *nix you'll need to open a raw socket with the ICMP proto flag. The following should be a push in the right direction.
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onl ... cmp.7.html
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onl ... raw.7.html
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
Beej's guide is what The C Programming Language (K&R) is for C, what Donald Knuth's TOACP is for algorithms, what MIT's SICP (the wizard book) is for language and what Compilers: Principals, Techniques and Tools (The dragon book) is fro compiler theory.
Anyways, if you want to implement a traditional pinger similar to the ping command line tool, you'll have to send ICMP packets. Standard sockets typically only allow for the sending of data of TCP or UDP packets (that the kernel creates for you) that sit on top of the IP protocol. ICMP like IP is an OSI layer 3 protocol that sits directly on a layer 2 protocol (typically ethernet frames).
in *nix you'll need to open a raw socket with the ICMP proto flag. The following should be a push in the right direction.
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onl ... cmp.7.html
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/onl ... raw.7.html
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Re: trying to write a ping program
by kujinR on Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:26 pm
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thetan wrote:Beej's guide is what The C Programming Language (K&R) is for C, what Donald Knuth's TOACP is for algorithms, what MIT's SICP (the wizard book) is for language and what Compilers: Principals, Techniques and Tools (The dragon book) is fro compiler theory.
Totally off topic but, I would like to see more of this list, please.
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by -Th3V01d- on Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:14 pm
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no one can help you here...
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by centip3de on Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:39 pm
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-Th3V01d- wrote:no one can help you here...
1: Epic necro is epic.
2: There's lots of people to help you here.
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by LoGiCaL__ on Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:56 pm
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-Th3V01d- wrote:no one can help you here...
If you're going to necro a post, at least be somewhat helpful or have something productive to add. thnx
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