Pinging from MMF

[Chaos]

Greetings everyone,

I have been tasked to write a program that goes down a list of IPs to ping them once every few minutes, and on a failed ping send a notification to X user via email.

My questions are this:
1. Is there a way to ping from within MMF?
2. Providing the answer to the above is true, is there a way to check for a successful or failed ping attempt?
3. For the Ext devs out there: How hard would it be to write an extension to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Phi]

1. Yes, use DarkSocket with ICMP, there's a PDF with the extension for using it.
2. Yes, see what gets returned.
3. See 1!

[LB]

I think there are a couple dedicated ping objects by RickyRombo and co.

[Redsquirrel]

did you have any joy with this? tried darksocket to no joy and couldn't find dedicated ping objects (i looked here - http://dark-wire.com/store/extlist.php)

[LB]

Did you try the extensions by RickyRombo?

[Redsquirrel]

I couldn't find those extensions...

The local ip one won't do the job.

[LB]

Oh, for some reason I thought it was a pinging extension, sorry.

[Redsquirrel]

LocalIP++ has still come in handy - hostname does want i want. I also need the IP address, but it always includes the gateway address which i don't want displayed.

Not quite sure why the gateway address is included in the first place or at least the option of just getting the IP address?

[Redsquirrel]

Actually, the IP works if it's not a network - it only shows the gateway if it is attached to a network/domain. It would seem this is either a bug or unwanted "feature"

I might actually try the standard LocalIP extension and see if that works tommorrow.