Ping/udp packets

[Guest_imported]

Is it possible to ping an ip useing vbscipt and sending and receaving udp packets??

 

[RobSchultz]

You can use WSH/VBScript that can run an external program (either locally or on an ASP server). You could run the ping command and redirect the output to a file. You could then parse the text file to pull in the necessary information. Read up on WSH. I believe the microsoft url is

http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting

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