Mirlyn
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to determine how I can see which machines are online on my local network. My method is a web frontend using the Pear libraries of php to ping the machines. However, I can't seem to get right arguments to make it work. Have you ever used Pear's NetPing?
I've tried just using exec, but I can't seem to make ping go fast enough to load the page (I'm talking 40-50 machines).
The more I think of it, the more I think I'll just use a perl script to ping the machines itself and keep a database record which the frontend could view. There might be some concurrency issues I'd run into with that though.
Any other ideas?
I've tried just using exec, but I can't seem to make ping go fast enough to load the page (I'm talking 40-50 machines).
The more I think of it, the more I think I'll just use a perl script to ping the machines itself and keep a database record which the frontend could view. There might be some concurrency issues I'd run into with that though.
Any other ideas?
