scripteaze wrote: >>> I need to be able to send a rip1 request to my rip1 enabled device., > Well, i use scapy quite often, however, this needs to be very portable
import socket rip_request = '\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x02' + '\x00' * 17 + '\x10' s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) s.sendto(rip_request, ("servername", 520)) s.close() If you also want to handle the replies, you might want to have a look at the SocketServer module: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-SocketServer.html Regards Dirk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list