Am 16.07.2011 21:13, schrieb Dan Stromberg: > Some options: > > 1) Broadcast ping > 2) nmap the subnet, optionally with -P0 > 3) Check the arp cache (optionally after options 1, 2 or 4) > 4) Unicast ping everything on the subnet in parallel - very effective, very > fast, might want to do it with threads rather than subprocesses to avoid a > load spike
5) arping - needs root permissions but works well inside a broadcast domain. It can detect hosts that block ICMP echo reply, too. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list