Hi, I checked the icmp option and there seems to be an issue that non-root accounts cannot execute pings and cannot create raw sockets... This means that some simple solution (without modifying system parameters) is not possible. At least I am having problems with it on FreeBSD.
Will investigate further.
Otherwise the idea would be to create separate script and put it to crontab to check against all subnets that have the option enabled and write responses to database, even notifications etc could be made in case of changes....
brm
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Why do you want to use additional option with ping command ? What are the options you need ? A regulard ping should be available as normal user.
I have probably missed your point...
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2013-02-02
Interesting point on the IPv6 Host discovery, an ol' fashioned port scan could take a.... lifetime or two.
It could be possible to search a gateway devices ND cache via SNMP
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Good idea, will check possible implementation scenarios.
IPv4 shouldn't be an issue, for IPv6 /64 and above pinging will not be possible...
Hi, I checked the icmp option and there seems to be an issue that non-root accounts cannot execute pings and cannot create raw sockets... This means that some simple solution (without modifying system parameters) is not possible. At least I am having problems with it on FreeBSD.
Will investigate further.
Otherwise the idea would be to create separate script and put it to crontab to check against all subnets that have the option enabled and write responses to database, even notifications etc could be made in case of changes....
brm
Why do you want to use additional option with ping command ? What are the options you need ? A regulard ping should be available as normal user.
I have probably missed your point...
Interesting point on the IPv6 Host discovery, an ol' fashioned port scan could take a.... lifetime or two.
It could be possible to search a gateway devices ND cache via SNMP