ping multiple Ips with python

[Gerhard Haering]

* darrell <dgallion1 at yahoo.com> [2003-01-04 03:07 +0000]:
> Multiple ping sounded like fun.
> So here's a quick mod to some ping code I found.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> [icmp code in Python]

This needs superuser privileges, right?

Do you work as root by default, because you don't mention this necessity?!

That was the primary reason why I tried to interface the suid root 'ping'
utility with popen2.Popen3.

Gerhard
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