Python wrote: > ping uses icmp. icmp does not have port numbers. icmp is a host-to- > host protocol for managing the flow of packets and reporting errors. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_Echo_Request > describes the outgoing "ping packet", but is probably too low-level to > be useful. > > Port numbers are used in UDP and TCP. The port scanning program will > not help you with ping. UDP and TCP have port numbers because they are > application-to-application protocols and use the port number to identify > the target application. > > I checked the index of "Foundations of Python Network Programming" and > did not see entries for icmp or ping. I have not noticed icmp support > in the Python libraries. > >
http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dpkt/pydoc/icmp.html http://pynms.sourceforge.net/icmp.html And look around twistedmatrix ~r -- 4.6692916090 'cmVlZG9icmllbkBnbWFpbC5jb20=\n'.decode('base64') http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=16474&t=1 keyID: 0x0FA09FCE _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
