Sending a Ping

[greg303]

I was wondering how you might find out if a networked computer has crashed or is working on the network. I was thinking the easiest way would to be send a ping command out and if there was a response the program not do anything if there was no reply then the program would do something. I was wondering how you would send a ping and read the response back.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[johnwm]

Try the faq section - particularly faq222-607

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[zemp]

There are several examples of VB programs that ping other computers at

http://www.planetsourcecode.com

as well.

Take Care,

zemp

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[greg303]

Thanks for the replies, they were helpful!