Thanks linuxfreak and sybren for positive comments My application will be running on Linux. How to send ICMP ECHO as broadcast packets. I do not know this. Please tell me how to?
Sybren.. Does nmap is available on every systems? I tried on my linux fc4 machine in user previleage. it was not working. Does this just belongs to superuser... Is there any other way ? Can just socket.connect or sendto help me? I.E. their return valuess... Sandeep From: Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Detecting computers on network Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:59 AM linuxfreak enlightened us with: >How about sending an ICMP echo packet to your broadcast address and >checking which hosts send a reply Won't work on all boxes. Windows boxes ignore broadcast pings, for example. I'd go for a call to "nmap -sP" instead, and filter it's output. Sybren _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
