Re: Script Required to Check a range of IP's

thanks Joshua for the help but the server is very critical and they will not
install any external softwares. This is the policy and i have to adhere to
the policy...

i need a perl script to do so..

Regards
Mazhar

On 6/29/06, Joshua Colson <jcolson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 19:44 +0400, Mazhar wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a requirement of writing down a script to check the range of IP's
in
> a text file and display them which all are active and not active.
>
> I have written down the below and needs your help because it is not
giving
> me the correct ouptut.

Why don't you just use a shell tool like nmap for this? Something like
(assuming all the IPs are the only thing in the file):

cat ips.txt | xargs nmap -sP

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Joshua Colson <jcolson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>