From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Ping function Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:06:06 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 24 Message-ID: <395CE18E.38872095@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> References: <8jii1n$fc2$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-184.titanium.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news8.svr.pol.co.uk 962389848 27689 62.136.21.184 (30 Jun 2000 18:30:48 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jun 2000 18:30:48 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. kknd_bl AT my-deja DOT com wrote: > How do I write a function that imitates the DOS Ping program You need to take a look at Watt-32, which uses packet drivers for its networking: http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/ [ For everyone's information: This is not possible with other networking libraries such as libsocket, which use Winsock's virtual device drivers to provide networking under Windows, because Winsock does not provide this service through WSOCK.VXD. ] > and where you can determine the TCP port?? The TCP port of what? Hope this helps, bye, -- Richard Dawe [ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]