Detecting computers on network

[Sybren Stuvel]

linuxfreak enlightened us with:
> How about sending an ICMP echo packet to your broadcast address and
> checking which hosts send a reply

Won't work on all boxes. Windows boxes ignore broadcast pings, for
example.

I'd go for a call to "nmap -sP" instead, and filter it's output.

Sybren
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