Re: Ping return for down hosts

[Thomas Gaume <tom flwireless net>]

Internic no longer handles assigning internet IP addresses, that falls under
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) http://www.arin.net.  They now
have utilization quotas, to have your class c considered properly managed you
must have 80% utilization by ping and all addresses must revearse lookup.


"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote:

> Out of curiosity, who is mandating the 80% utilization amount?
>
> Not the internic?
>
> -JMS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gaume <tom flwireless net>
> To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
> Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 2:28 PM
> Subject: Ping return for down hosts
>
> >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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