Once you ping an address you can shell to get the arp table. Use arp -a. BTW have you looked at Spiceworks? They have an incredible scan engine that gets just about anything with a management protocol. AND it's FREE!
Bob On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > A weekend challenge for those who are bored, but not only... > > I wonder whether it is possible to have a livecode stack that scans all IP > addresses within a specific subnet to check whether devices are there. I am > currently using Remote Desktop to do those scans manually but this is > becoming boring and I'd like to run them more regularly, that is to automate > the process. > > For each scan, I need to get the list of active IP adresses in a specific > subnet and the corresponding MAC addresses and hostnames (hostnames is easy > with the hostaddresstoname function in livecode). I gather I could try > opening a socket to some specific port. However, this needs to work with Macs > (OS9 and OSX), Windows, Linux, NAS, printers, and cross switches to other > subnets. Good old ping might suffice but how to do it in livecode? > > The solution can be OSX-specific since it will run either under OSX Tiger or > Leopeard (no Snow). Something like an automated IP Scan or Angry IP Scanner > made in LiveCode. Using NMap through a shell call would be acceptable. > > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
