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Internet Control Message Protocol in Node

npm Twitter: qtmsheep

Node wrapper for the ICMP protocol.

Install

npm install icmp

On Windows, Windows Build Tools are required: npm install -g windows-build-tools

Usage

const ICMP = require('icmp')

or

import * as ICMP from 'icmp';

Properties

ICMP.host: string

The requested HOST (can be an IP)

ICMP.ip: string

The requested IP, when host parameter is given to the constructor, the DNS will be resolved to get this IP adress

ICMP.open: boolean

This property will be true or false, depending on the ping response

ICMP.type: string

ICMP response type, will be one from this array:

['REPLY', 'NA', 'NA', 'DESTINATION_UNREACHABLE', 'SOURCE_QUENCH', 'REDIRECT']

ICMP.code: string

ICMP response code, will be one from this array:

['NET', 'HOST', 'PROTOCOL', 'PORT', 'FRAGMENTATION', 'ROUTE_FAILED', 'NET_UNKNOWN', 'HOST_UNKNOWN', 'HOST_ISOLATED', 'NET_PROHIBITED', 'HOST_PROHIBITED', 'NET_UNREACHABLE', 'HOST_UNREACHABLE', 'COMM_PROHIBITED', 'HOST_PRECEDENCE', 'PRECEDENCE_CUTOFF', 'NETWORK', 'HOST', 'SERVICE_NETWORK', 'HOST_NETWORK']

Methods

Note: default timeout of each methods is 5000ms.

(static) ICMP.ping(host: string, timeout?: number): Promise

Send a ping to a specific host. Returns a Promise resolving an ICMP instance and rejecting an Error.

ICMP.ping(timeout?: number): Promise

Send a ping to the defined ICMP instance's host. Returns a Promise, resolving nothing and rejecting an Error.

(static) ICMP.send(host: string, data?: string)

Send data to a specific host through ICMP. Returns a Promise resolving an ICMP instance and rejecting an Error.

icmp.send('10.43.65.9', "Hey, I'm sending a message!")
    .then(obj => {
        console.log(obj.open ? 'Done' : 'Failed')
    })
    .catch(err => console.log(err));

ICMP.send(data?: string, timeout?: number)

Send data to the defined ICMP instance's host. Returns a Promise resolving nothing and rejecting an Error.

(static) ICMP.listen(cb: (buffer, source) => void)

Listen to incomming ICMP requests.

ICMP.listen(cb: (buffer, source) => void)

Listen to incomming ICMP requests.

ICMP.close()

Close the raw socket stream. Can be used to stop a request.

Author

👤 Nathanael Demacon

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