How to send broadcast message over network and collect all the IP address?

[Francesco Ciocchetti]

Sandeep Arya wrote:

>Hello to all
>
>Well this is my first mail on this list. I am facing a problem associated 
>with collecting IP address on my network.
>
>What i thought is to send broadcast packet over the network and then 
>recieving back the reply from the computers and bridges connected to my 
>network and then adding their IP Address in a list.
>
>How this can be achieved? Say my computer on which application will run's IP 
>is 192.168.100.254 and subnetmask is 255.255.255.0
>
>How to do this in core Python?
>
>Sandeep
>
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I'm leaving from office now so i can not give a more complete answer ... 
i would use an ARP Request to all network address on your network and 
check who answer. Check out libdnet (http://libdnet.sf.net) for a python 
module implementing networking funcions.

bye
Francesco