what version are you using?
the latest Net::Ping I have has
$VERSION = "2.16";
and the following comments/code
if ($^O =~ /Win32/i) {
# Buggy Winsock API doesn't allow us to use alarm()
calls.
# Hence, if our OS is Windows, we need to create a
separate
# process to do the blocking connect attempt.
> I installed the latest Active Perl on W2K and pretty much cut-n-paste the
> Net::Ping example (in the documentation) into a script and ran it. I get this
> error:
>
> C:\data\Robomon>pinghosts.pl
> The Unsupported function alarm function is unimplemented at c:/Perl/lib/Net/Ping
> .pm line 308.
>
>
> Is alarm() not supported on M$? Is Net::Ping hence not supported?
>
> regards,
>
> Adam
>
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