all ip addresses of machines in the local network

[John Bokma]

"damacy" <wegein at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi, sandra.

If you reply like is common on Usenet, there is no need to address 
someone, since the attribution line is just there:

Sandra-24 wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Google for top posting, and read why it's generally considered bad.

> no, it's not as complicated as that. all i want to do is to load a
> database onto different machines residing in the same network.

if they are all in the xx.yy.zz.ii range, with ii the only number that 
varies, you could ping each ii with a short time out. No reply = nothing 
on it (unless pings are blocked).

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