pinging or else network devices from livecode

[Bob Sneidar]

Once you ping an address you can shell to get the arp table. Use arp -a. BTW have you looked at Spiceworks? They have an incredible scan engine that gets just about anything with a management protocol. AND it's FREE!

Bob


On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> A weekend challenge for those who are bored, but not only...
> 
> I wonder whether it is possible to have a livecode stack that scans all IP addresses within a specific subnet to check whether devices are there. I am currently using Remote Desktop to do those scans manually but this is becoming boring and I'd like to run them more regularly, that is to automate the process.
> 
> For each scan, I need to get the list of active IP adresses in a specific subnet and the corresponding MAC addresses and hostnames (hostnames is easy with the hostaddresstoname function in livecode). I gather I could try opening a socket to some specific port. However, this needs to work with Macs (OS9 and OSX), Windows, Linux, NAS, printers, and cross switches to other subnets. Good old ping might suffice but how to do it in livecode?
> 
> The solution can be OSX-specific since it will run either under OSX Tiger or Leopeard (no Snow). Something like an automated IP Scan or Angry IP Scanner made in LiveCode. Using NMap through a shell call would be acceptable.
> 
> Robert
> 
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