Re: [tkined] network & subnet

Peter Polkinghorne (Peter.Polkinghorne@brunel.ac.uk)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:55:15 +0200

[SNIP]
> A couple of points about these routines. First, they never worked right
> in the first place for anything other than a Class C address. There's a
> bug fix for that below. Second, it's questionable whether they *should*
> work right for anything bigger than a Class C address, since they ping
> every darn IP address in the entire range. Doing this on a Class A or B
> address would probably be a bad idea and would never get completed
> anyway.
[SNIP]

Just to report that I have on a reasonably regular basis (ie every few months)
discovered our Class B address space with only occaisonal problems. It takes
a while (around 3-4 hours). However what is really needed is:
a) incremental discovery - to add new subnets
b) update - remove nodes that are gone and add new ones - harder.

... however someone has to write this :-)

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