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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:54:04 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Who's on my line...?

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
>
> Is there a function by which I can tell how many subscribers
> ATTBI has connected to my internet cable node?

Hmm. PING will tell you if a computer is connected, so you could PING
every IP address on your node and see which ones respond.

Technically, PING requests and responses are handled (afaik) by a
machine's TCP/IP stack. Some firewalls drop the PING packets on
purpose, so if you don't get a response there might still be a machine
there. And your cable ISP may have their DHCP configured to continually
change the assigned IP addresses to thwart people who want to run
servers, so if you're looking for an _exact_ count this could mess up
your summary.

Try it manually and see what happens. If things look promising you can
pipe the PING responses into a file and then use a little Rexx to
summarize the info.

You can run DHCPMON (in \MPTN\BIN\) to get your IP address.

- Peter

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