"petercable at gmail.com" <petercable at gmail.com> wrote: > There is no (that I am aware of) ICMP module in the standard library. > See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/409689 for > an example of a Python implementation of ping. Google also finds another implementation at: http://www.gnist.org/~lars/code/ping/ping.py