-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 06:06 am, Kallol Biswas wrote: > Hi, > We need to develop an application that can detect all networked > devices > running TCP/IP in a private network. The devices can be behind firewall, > NAT > and switches. > > I am not well conversant with the intricacies of tcp/ip networking so any > input > is appreciated. Unfortunately it is very difficult to tell what you are actually trying to do. You need to provide much more detail. For example, do you only want devices that could potentially run TCP/IP? Do you want devices that can run TCP/IP? Do you also want devices that have run other protocols over IP? Do you want only the network interfaces on the machine running the application? Or do you want all interfaces on devices on the local link? Or all the interfaces devices that match a particular netmask? Even if it is on the other side of the firewall or NAT? How invasive can the change be? Is it OK to modify the OS on every machine you need to detect? How about a userspace application that has to be running? If that is OK, which OS's do you need to support? How much network traffic can you tolerate? Perhaps if you provided an overview of the environment you are working in, who the intended users of the application are, and what they will use it for, it might be easier to advise you. Also, we need answers to all the prior questions too! Brad -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/0y4W6pHgIdAuOMRAgAaAKCCJGr7h9q9EhGQJEFLdJak5oMxDACgt9TU HHkPpQtEcM398o7G1Pk745c= =6SxD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
