How to broad cast ping address.......

[Steve Holden]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:31:56 -0200, Manikandan R <mani.agape at gmail.com>  
> escribi�:
> 
>>     I am working in Python scripting. I an need to find out all the  
>> device
>> connected in the network. Just I planned to broad cast the ping address  
>> and
>> use the ARP table to get the IP address of the system in the network.  
>> As, I
>> am working in Win XP i am not able to use ping -b command to broad cast.
> 
> The simplest approach is to enumerate and ping each and every address in  
> your subnet and wait for the response, but consider that some hosts may  
> have been configured to not answer (and assuming you don't have a /8  
> network...)
> There is an ICMP library in the Python cookbook  
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook and you can search the  
> Package Index too: http://pypi.python.org
> 
Don't I remember Microsoft withdrawing access to the raw packet driver 
on Windows XP, or was thing something they decided to ruin in Vaster?

regards
  Steve
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