Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:38 AM, <sohcahto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Secondly, even if you find a module, keep in mind that the module probably >> won't stay in Python land. It will probably call an external utility itself. >> >> If you REALLY wanted to check it without calling an external utility, you >> could connect to port 67 and see what happens, but that could cause problems. > > We're talking UDP here, so there's no "connect to" concept. You have > to send a packet and listen for a reply,
If I'd want to implement a serious DHCP monitoring I'd use a DHCP module and try to renew a certain monitoring lease. With that approach you'd also see whether the DHCP server does something meaningful. Ciao, Michael. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
