You could always do a cron job and have a script run every 10-15 minutes, load the existing and connecting IP's in a text file and use another script to print out the latest successful pings. -C ""Brian"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 9e4msm$e5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9e4msm$e5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 :) > > Brian > "He did not know the strength of my Kung fu" > --Wong Fei Hung "The Iron Monkey" > > "Mohamed LRHAZI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > 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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
