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Quickly check whether many network hosts are up-and-running
Objective: check if a host is up-and-running on the network,
with a method that can be efficiently parallelized over many hosts.
Emphasis on a QUICK turnaround of the check.
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Faster way than ping for checking if computer online?
I'm writing a wake on lan script for a set of our lab computers. We have sqlite db with a list of the computer hostnames, IPs, and MACs and currently I ping each of them with '-c1' so it doesn't run ...
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How can i check that a remote computer is online for ssh / script acess?
i'm writting a script that will backup data from my laptop to an ubuntu server.
to do so, i'm looking for a (ba)sh command to test if the server is available before starting the backup. something like ...
