Re: PING/PONG

[Michal *pht* Svoboda <svobodam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Christophe Kalt wrote:

> When I parse this, I get "For example, to break the RFC".
> Section 4.6.2 (which I really suggest that you read) of the
> RFC defines PING as a "message used to test the presence of
> an active client at the other end of the connection." not as
> a message to measure lag.

Duh. What about the PART message. RFC says, it takes only channel name(s)
as parameters. IRCnet ircd allows to specify another parameter as
"reason". Why not enhance PING/PONG in a simmilar way?
i send: PING server1 server2 :text
server sends PONG node1 node2 :text

of course, the "text" would be optional.

pht