Re: a *fast* check for whether another machine is on the local network?

2013-06-14 Thread Daryl Williams
might want to try either vmware or virtual box, both offer very good machine virtualization. Regards, Daryl On 6/14/13 7:03 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Daryl Williams wrote: If I am understanding correctly you might try using either the netstat or route commands to

Re: a *fast* check for whether another machine is on the local network?

2013-06-13 Thread Daryl Williams
. The output can be rather detailed and verbose, but should not too hard to parse. Regards, Daryl On 6/13/13 4:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Daryl Williams wrote: It sounds like what you are really looking for is a local gateway to get to the Internet, and to

Re: a *fast* check for whether another machine is on the local network?

2013-06-13 Thread Daryl Williams
It sounds like what you are really looking for is a local gateway to get to the Internet, and to where ever the time entries are made? It is a convention may administrators use to put gateways at either end of the local network, i.e. nnn.nnn.nnn.1 or nnn.nnn.nnn.255, but you would still need t

Re: a *fast* check for whether another machine is on the local network?

2013-06-13 Thread Daryl Williams
According to the the dictionary: openSockets: Returns a list of the currently open sockets. I believe they mean on the localhost, although it doesn't specifically say so. I think you will need to use the shell command to ping whatever address(es) you had in mind. On a class C, or 24 bit CIDR