Re: Ping return for down hosts

[Thomas Gaume <tom flwireless net>]

The reason I'm looking for this is that I have customers with large modem
pools and when my upstream provide tries to ping these addresses at 3 in the
morning they do not answer.  So the script or program must know the status of
the IP address prior to answering the ICMP request or letting it past to the
host.  This obviously must be very dynamic so putting the IP addresses on a
physical interface is not a possiblility.



Joshua Levitsky wrote:

> 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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