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,
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