"Greg Lindstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
A) Is this a sound strategy?
Yes provided you keep the poll period sensible - say
once per minute at the most Otherwise your pings become
a significant overhead in themselves!
B) Are there libraries for the "ping"ing aspect? If not, I can
execute the ping using "command"...how can I capture the screen
output
to get the times?
You can use sockets to send raw ICMP messages but
using standard ping via the os is ok for this. Use the subprocess
module
and Popen object to get the outpurt from the command.
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Alan Gauld
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