Hello!
As the subject says I need to test whether a host computer in our
network is reachable or not. At the moment I simply attempt to connect
to a given port that is open when the machine is online:
[...]
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
try:
sock.connect(('192.168.0.100', 80))
except socket.error:
print >>sys.stderr "Server offline"
sock.close()
[...]
Now I am wondering if there isn't any better method which would be more
general. In fact, I think of something like a python version of ping
which only tries to send ICMP packets. However, I don't know what the
code has to look like then. Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks,
Fabian
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