Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Low-level networking [Haskell not ready for Foo]

Dominic Steinitz wrote:

John Goerzen writes:

...

...

Any idea how I get Haskell to send ICMP ECHO packets? (And, obviously, receive the replies.)

SocketType claims to support Raw, which I think is the conventional means for doing this. Whether all the infrastructure for that is there, I don't know. I have never worked with raw sockets though, so I may be leading you down a dark mugger-laden alley here

Here's an example of a Haskell version of ping, now sadly bit-rotted.

Dominic.

http://haskell.org/networktools/src/ping/test.hs

I have a worrying feeling this might be too Unix-specific to work on Windows. But I guess it's a start...