Will be a support of raw sockets in node.js, e.g. to create ping packets?

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score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 25 '19 at 11:19

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A new module named node-raw-socket offers the perfect solution for real raw sockets using nodejs.

And, for creating ping (ICMP) packets, the same developer has a very nice working (using it) solution based on node-raw-sockets as well: node-net-ping.

edited Mar 25 '19 at 11:19

Quentin

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answered Feb 12 '13 at 10:48

umutm

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node-raw-socket does not install. fails on build for me. – uptownhr Sep 23 '15 at 21:09

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '12 at 16:55

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Node supports TCP, UDP, and unix sockets. Ping packets are ICMP packets, which node cannot create directly at this time. You could execute an external ping subprocess or consider writing a C extension. Most of node's low level OS APIs are thin javascript wrappers around the corresponding C API, so you could follow that existing well-established pattern and implement this as a small JS wrapper layer around the corresponding OS-level APIs.

http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/all.html#all_class_net_socket

There's a chance node/javascript are a poor choice for your project based on this requirement though.

answered Dec 09 '12 at 16:55

Peter Lyons

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I think the solution should be to create an addon [addons](http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/all.html#all_addon_patterns) – sauletasmiestas Dec 10 '12 at 15:25
@Peter, There's no reason why Node supports TCP UDP, yet doesn't support IP. Support for IP must come sooner or later. – Pacerier Mar 03 '17 at 23:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 04 '13 at 10:28

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net-ping module may suit your need. to install it you can use the following command:

npm install net-ping

The documentation with examples is included here.

answered May 04 '13 at 10:28

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Will be a support of raw sockets in node.js, e.g. to create ping packets?

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