On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:38 AM, <sohcahto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Secondly, even if you find a module, keep in mind that the module probably > won't stay in Python land. It will probably call an external utility itself. > > If you REALLY wanted to check it without calling an external utility, you > could connect to port 67 and see what happens, but that could cause problems.
We're talking UDP here, so there's no "connect to" concept. You have to send a packet and listen for a reply, and that might have consequences (eg if you send a DHCPDISCOVER just to find out if there's a DHCP server, you potentially cause a temporary IP allocation). Reading from /proc or running an external program would be the best ways to find out. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
