Module for ping

Matthew Dixon Cowles matt at mondoinfo.com
Mon Sep 4 01:48:36 EDT 2000


On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:24:56 -0600, Kevin Breit
<battery841 at remove.for.no.spam.mypad.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> I am curious if there are any modules for sending pings.  I can
> always run the system call, but I'd much prefer to be able to sit
> down and have it run native Python code to ping.

Kevin,
If you're using Unix you may find my ping.py useful. It's at:

ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mdc/ping.py

It's pretty primitive but you can probably make it do what you
want. It requires root priviliges to open the raw socket.

Regards,
Matt



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