site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com -josh On Sep 26, 2005, at 2:48 AM, Apple Developer wrote: Hi, Thank you, This email sent to jgraessley@apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Macnetworkprog mailing list (Macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/macnetworkprog/site_archiver%40lists.... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com netstat doesn't do a portscan. A portscan attempts to connect to various ports to determine what's open. netstat uses sysctls to get information from the kernel about which ports are open. I believe the network utility performs a classic port scan, iterating through the ports attempting to connect to each one. The ip6stat structure is a private structure. This structure is likely to change from release to release. Since netstat is recompiled by Apple with every release where the structure changes, this isn't a problem. If a third party used that data structure, they would find that their program broke every time we changed the data structure. I need to get the status of a port (open or closed). I have attempted to get netstat from the darwin sources to compile, but found problems in that 'ip6stat' structure was not found (a .h file is not found in 10.4). Does anyone else know of any source that can do a port scan like the network utility does? Randy _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Macnetworkprog mailing list (Macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/macnetworkprog/jgraessley% 40apple.com smime.p7s