Re: Ping return for down hosts

[Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk mindspring com>]

Doesn't this defeat what the IANA is trying to do? Which is keep numbers
available to those that need them? If you really want to do that you could
try putting multiple IP's on one ethernet interface.

At 02:19 PM 10/30/98 , Thomas Gaume wrote:
>I have a problem, I need to find a script/program that will take a block
>of IP addresses and answer ICMP ping request for those addresses if the
>hosts is not available.  The reason for this is we are an ISP and must
>show consistant 80% usage of our assigned IP addresses at any time.
>This program should just basically capture the ping request and check if
>the host is answering, if not then answer for it.
>
>I am not a programmer so writing this could eat up alot of my time and I
>basically have no idea where to start.
>
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