You could also try the ping module that the Eddie monitoring tool has been using successfully, cross-platform, for many years.
http://dev.eddie-tool.net/trac/browser/eddie/trunk/lib/common/Directives/pinger.py Cheers, Chris Nico Grubert wrote: > I could not find any "ping" Class or Handler in python (2.3.5) to ping a > machine. > I just need to "ping" a machine to see if its answering. What's the best > way to do it? -- http://chrismiles.info/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list