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I am looking for program which can send PING command by set intervals. It is desirable that program can ping devices in quantity simultaneously.

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You can do that with vbscript on Windows, or cron on Linux.
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Yeah, set a batch/BASH script with possible threads if you wish for it to be simultaneous depending on your application, if you need any assistance with the commands just ask.

EDIT AFTER NEXT POST WAS POSTED: I agree.. I re-read it and it has no logical application.

Edited by Alexander, 16 June 2010 - 05:36 AM.

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Out of curiosity, what's the point of this thing? I can't think of a use that isn't malicious.
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WingedPanther said:

Out of curiosity, what's the point of this thing? I can't think of a use that isn't malicious.
I can't think of a way that would be even only somewhat successful

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Excited said:

I can't think of a way that would be even only somewhat successful
Well, port scanning?

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ping doesn't do a port scan, it just detects if pings are blocked or not, and distance to the pinged computer if not blocked. It could also be used as a "keepalive" mechanism, but why do that to a bunch of computers simultaneously?
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