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Sandeep Arya
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: (e-mail address removed)
Subject: Re: Detecting computers on network
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:59 AM
linuxfreak enlightened us with:
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
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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: (e-mail address removed)
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
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