On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:05:30PM +0000, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> Here's the problem. I had a linux box (A), and a sun box (B). They
> are both connected to a 100mb switched private lan. They are the
> only boxen on this network. I have complete control over A, but none
> over B. I need to be able to write a program to run on A that will
> detect as fast as possible if B is up or down. Calling ping or any
Hmm - the question that comes to mind is the old Latin one "Quis custodiet
ipsos custodes ?" loosely translated in this case as "Where is box C ?" :-)
Niall
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