Re: Network Connectivity help please

Brian, Why don't leave the "pinging" to some other script, and have that other script run continuesouly and upfate a sql table with the ststus of each and time stamp of when it was last ping'ed...etc Mohamed~ Brian wrote: > > I'm writing a script to help us manage one of our Class C networks. The > page loads all of the host IPs, who owns them, phys desc. of the box, and > does a forward reverse lookup on all of the addresses. I'd like to add a > column that shows which machines are currently reachable on the network. A > simple ping would probably be easiest, but parsing a standard ping for 254 > hosts would cause the script to have about a 10 minute load time. are there > any quick easy, and most importly, low system overhead, solutions to this > problem? > > Brian Artiaco > as0k@excite.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net