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Re: Ping return for down hosts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gaume)
Fri Oct 30 21:10:06 1998
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 02:06:47 +0000
From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
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Internic no longer handles assigning internet IP addresses, that falls under
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) http://www.arin.net. They now
have utilization quotas, to have your class c considered properly managed you
must have 80% utilization by ping and all addresses must revearse lookup.
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote:
> Out of curiosity, who is mandating the 80% utilization amount?
>
> Not the internic?
>
> -JMS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 2:28 PM
> Subject: Ping return for down hosts
>
> >I have a problem, I need to find a script/program that will take a block
> >of IP addresses and answer ICMP ping request for those addresses if the
> >hosts is not available. The reason for this is we are an ISP and must
> >show consistant 80% usage of our assigned IP addresses at any time.
> >This program should just basically capture the ping request and check if
> >the host is answering, if not then answer for it.
> >
> >I am not a programmer so writing this could eat up alot of my time and I
> >basically have no idea where to start.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Thomas Gaume
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Wireless Internet Services of Florida, Inc.
407-752-4000, tom@flwireless.net
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