>> Has any one done a version of 'Ping' for Rebol?
>
>The problem with ping is that it requires access to raw sockets, and on many
>operating systems (including Unix) this requires superuser privileges, so the
>REBOL binary would have to be run by root or with setuid root.
>
>> Is there a way to do this with out running a special server
>> on my machine?
>
>You don't need *special* servers, just *some* server to connect to.
>You could e.g. install an ftp server and try to connect to it (using
>tcp://), and see if you get a response.
Let me rephrase that. If I do a PING from my wifes machine,
some thing on my machine is responding to the PING, but I'm
not running any specific service.
I'm assuming the response to PING from my machine is coming
from Echo 7/tcp or udp? I'm assuming Echo is part of the
base TCP code. I'm doing this in Windoze95.
So then I should be able to open tcp to echo to look for a
response?
