Kevin Breit battery841 at remove.for.no.spam.mypad.com
Mon Sep 4 14:03:09 EDT 2000

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In article <slrn8r6dtk.nq.matt at happy-hour.mondoinfo.com>,
matt at mondoinfo.com (Matthew Dixon Cowles) wrote:
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> On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:24:56 -0600, Kevin Breit
> <battery841 at remove.for.no.spam.mypad.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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> 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.
Hmmm...okay.  Now, how do I use this?  I am kinda new at Python.  What is
the syntax to use in the .py app that I am writing to call and use your
stuff.  Granted, it's the basic import blar.py and then blar.ping(IP), but
what is the actual usage for your app? Thanks kevin

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