t_bone:why are u saying such? , please check before you state such.
tor: the ping issue you are talking about , you can protect it from it and the system wont crash but it will slow the system down alot (even on a 060 66mhz.)
for stacks in development , roadshow , this is 68k and ppc .. it will be released as a buyable program for os3.x and will be included in os4 (full).
Amitcp is the morphos way , and its still beeing toot'd and that one is also looking to be great.
but i must add that none of theese are iinside the OS! .
tor: which tools do you use ? , have you tried the port nabber's on aminet ? , sure its free but it doesnt mean it stinks, been too long since i installed snooptools so i can't really help you on that right away,but i will look into it asap zulu.
cheers