On 8/24/06, Amit Khemka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23 Aug 2006 21:46:21 -0700, damacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, sandra. > > > > no, it's not as complicated as that. all i want to do is to load a > > database onto different machines residing in the same network. i hope > > there is a way doing it. or perhaps i have a poor understanding of how > > networks work. > > > > I expect that you would know the IP range for your network. Then you > can simply 'ping' each IP in the range to find wether its alive. > Moreover by your description I guess you would actually want to find > all machines in your network that run a particular network service, to > allow you to "distribute the database". In such case you can use > "nmap" with -p option, to find all the machines which are listening on > the particular port. > > hth, > amit. It seems that I am not too busy, so here is a code which may work with a few tweaks here and there: _________________________________________________________________________ import os # base and range of the ip addresses baseIP = "10.0.0." r = 6 interestingPort = 22 # port that you want to scan myIPs = []
for i in range(r): ip = baseIP+str(i) # It may need some customization for your case print "scanning: %s" %(ip) for output in os.popen("nmap %s -p %s" %(ip, interestingPort)).readlines(): if output.__contains__('%s/tcp open' %interestingPort): # i guess it would be tcp myIPs.append(ip) __________________________________________________________________________ print myIPs hth, amit. -- ---- Amit Khemka -- onyomo.com Home Page: www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~csd00377 Endless the world's turn, endless the sun's Spinning, Endless the quest; I turn again, back to my own beginning, And here, find rest. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list