Re: [NTLK] DHCP program for Newton

From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 02:42:08 EST


Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:34:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net>

> > And along the same lines... what about super-duper basic TCP utils.. like
> > 'ping' or nslookup/dig? Probably would make for a fun beginner dive into
> > newtonscript/nie programming, eh?
>
>None. NIE 2 can only send ICMP packets if you ping *it*, or hack into its
>internals I suppose.

Indeed for ping. Actually, there is an interface with Lantern, so one
can send and receive whatever one wants thru the ethernet card
(within NewtonScript of C++). But I wonder how one can actually do
ICMP using NIE.

For nslookup/dig, there is a NS client implemented in the Newton, but
it doesn't do as many things as nslookup provides. However, NIE
provides full support to UDP, so it won't be hard to have a correct
nslookup/dig-like utility using either TCP or UDP.

Paul

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