Re: Network Connectivity help please

On 18-May-01 Brian wrote: > Good point, I considered, doing it that way, I was just hoping that there > might be a 'prettier' way to do it from within PHP. Right now I'm using > fping from within a php loop that steps through the class C. The machine > I'm doing this on is dog slow though, so I'm hoping that when I move the > final version over to our main webserver it will run the script at an > acceptable speed. If not though, I have a feeling that I will most likely > implement your suggestion, unless someone knows of the 'pretty' solution > that I seek :) > The background script is the better way; but for a short-cut, at the top of the loop, ping your broadcast addr '192.168.x.255' a few times and then collect the DUP's. These won't have to get pinged explicitly. Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.