Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:09:47 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: "Feltis, Ralph C." <FELTIRC@dshs.wa.gov> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Network messaging Message-ID: <52B37C62-1ACC-11D8-B61F-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <496C6CA6ABA8DD4AB652EA39C9E5540D2938B7@dshs-exch1> References: <496C6CA6ABA8DD4AB652EA39C9E5540D2938B7@dshs-exch1>
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On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Feltis, Ralph C. wrote: > Is it possible to set some type of simple messaging system between > networked > FreeBSD machines? For example, client A pings client B, and then > client B > sends some prespecified text reply to client A. > to what end? I don't know how you respond to a literal ping, but you could code up a simple client <-> server system where client A connects to client B on a specified port and B emits some text on request.
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