pinging or else network devices from livecode

[Robert Brenstein]

On 21.01.11 at 17:46 -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
>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
>

I just looked at Spiceworks. Sounds great. Little problem: I have no 
Windows machine to run it on. It is also not clear from their website 
whether it can do scans on a schedule and log the results.

Robert