Monitoring LAN

[pasha]

hello ,


i want 2 monitor a ethernet LAN i.e just get the name of the host on the network and display that it is alive .

i think NETBIOS should be used . But i knew what it does but i dont know what function should i use to request the NETBIOS for services.

i have TURBO C++ & Borland on WIN-ME

kindly specify the syscalls & functions ,header files...etc

Thank u all...

[orbitz]

Hrmm, I do not quite understand. Do you have a list of names or do you need to somehow aquire them by listening to the network? If you need to acquire them, then you know they are up simply beacuse you just 'listened' to their traffic. Go look up 'windump'.

NetBIOS is a protocol mainly used in windows machines. Unless under special circumstances, NetBIOS calls would most likely not be what you want in this.

[pasha]

thanx
ping works fine but i want to have my own programm...
i need to learn how to code it.Thats it


help me
i actually want to write a progame in C ,which lists all the PCS on the LAN wether dead or alive?

can u guide me how to code it in C

[orbitz]

4. (Easy) write a loop which tests all the IPs in a range (eg. 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254).

That won't list the 'dead' ones too. But then again, are they really there if they are dead. haha.

[Hammer]

>>That won't list the 'dead' ones too.
Eh? It will list all 254 IP addresses, and if written properly, it will say if they are responding to ping's or not.

>>i want 2 monitor a ethernet LAN
>>write a loop which tests all the IPs in a range
Unfortunately, this won't cater for subnet masks, therefore you may be trying to ping hosts that aren't actually on your network.