Subj : Re: test a computer presence on the network in C
To   : comp.os.linux
From : fpd
Date : Wed Oct 06 2004 12:30 am

"Sybren Stuvel" <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> wrote in
message news:slrncm2nk2.k5.sybrenUSE@sybren.thirdtower.com...
> Fabrice Bentejac LM2S enlightened us with:
> > I'd like to test, inside a C program, whether a computer is
present
> > on the network (equivalent to a "ping" command.  What could I use
to
> > do that?
>
> Ehm... ping?
>
> Sybren
> --

I remember an old Sun Unix command "rup" or try "who"

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