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 final version over to our main webserver it will run the script at an acceptable speed. If not though, I have a feeling that I will most likely implement your suggestion, unless someone knows of the 'pretty' solution that I seek :) Brian "He did not know the strength of my Kung fu" --Wong Fei Hung "The Iron Monkey" "Mohamed LRHAZI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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. 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 > > simple ping would probably be easiest, but parsing a standard ping for 254 > > hosts would cause the script to have about a 10 minute load time. are there > > any quick easy, and most importly, low system overhead, solutions to this > > problem? > > > > Brian Artiaco > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
