Re: [PHP] Network Connectivity help please

2001-05-20 Thread Don Read
On 18-May-01 Brian wrote: > Good point, I considered, doing it that way, I was just hoping that there > might be a 'prettier' way to do it from within PHP. Right now I'm using > fping from within a php loop that steps through the class C. The machine > I'm doing this on is dog slow though, so I

Re: [PHP] Network Connectivity help please

2001-05-20 Thread Chris Sano
You could always do a cron job and have a script run every 10-15 minutes, load the existing and connecting IP's in a text file and use another script to print out the latest successful pings. -C ""Brian"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 9e4msm$e5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9e4msm$e5a$[EMAIL P

Re: [PHP] Network Connectivity help please

2001-05-18 Thread Brian
Good point, I considered, doing it that way, I was just hoping that there might be a 'prettier' way to do it from within PHP. Right now I'm using fping from within a php loop that steps through the class C. The machine I'm doing this on is dog slow though, so I'm hoping that when I move the fina

Re: [PHP] Network Connectivity help please

2001-05-18 Thread Mohamed LRHAZI
Brian, Why don't leave the "pinging" to some other script, and have that other script run continuesouly and upfate a sql table with the ststus of each and time stamp of when it was last ping'ed...etc Mohamed~ Brian wrote: > > I'm writing a script to help us manage one of our Class C networks.

[PHP] Network Connectivity help please

2001-05-18 Thread Brian
I'm writing a script to help us manage one of our Class C networks. The page loads all of the host IPs, who owns them, phys desc. of the box, and does a forward reverse lookup on all of the addresses. I'd like to add a column that shows which machines are currently reachable on the network. A s