[plug] audible ping

[bob]

On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 13:05, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 
> I've never heard of the audible ping before, from what I gather it
> just beeps every time it receives a ping packet? Curiously enough,
> yesterday I wrote "bing" and "bingd". Makes a server beep when you
> "bing" it. Very simple, uses netcat and bash:

Yep, ping -a beeps the speaker. 

Your bing looks neat though and does the trick in an extensible way.
Perhaps using a wav file (http://www.battlebelow.com/sonar5.wav :). and
then 

#!/bin/sh
nc -u -l -p 6666 | ( while read ; do play sonar5.wav ; done )

would be fun. Perhaps even going as far as splitting the file into send
and receive components.

Thanks for sharing bing with us.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bernard.


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