Years and years ago I used a powerful IP Network browser from Solarwinds (if the company name hasn’t changed). It was great until windows 2000 SP2 came out, then it didn’t work anymore. Sure Solarwinds released future versions, but then they started charging $$ for it. Being the avid problem solver I like to think I am, I wrote an IP Network browser of my own. It’s no where near as fancy as other non-free applications, and certainly not as fast. But it gets the job done. Recently I’ve had to dig up this code and tweak it for my needs. And because I’m such a nice guy, I’ll give you the application and code, for free!
So what does it do?
- Scans an IP Subnet within the boundaries you set.
- Can also attempt to get the Hostname for the IP’s returned.
Where do you get it?
- Download the FreeIPNB 1.1 Application (48k)
- Download the FreeIPNB 1.1 Source Code (25k, Visual Basic 6)
Technorati: visual basic, network, free
written by Jason September 20th, 2006 at 23:34 | #1
Nice!
Like the icon you’ve used as well. Where’d ya get that from? ;)
Not knowing anything about VB, this might be a dumb question… But can it list the machine name as well, and not just the response time? If you have a bunch of connections it might be handy to identify which workstation has which IP address.
Just a thought…
written by jc September 21st, 2006 at 08:58 | #2
Way ahead of you. It does take a little longer for each machine though, and some machines don’t have hostnames so they won’t be lsited.
written by Jason September 21st, 2006 at 20:07 | #3
Cool – thanks! :)
(PS – like the new theme!)
written by jc September 22nd, 2006 at 09:16 | #4
yeah took me a while to work out how to make one, and i still don’t think it’s quite finished.
written by Neil Robertson March 22nd, 2008 at 13:26 | #5
Hi,
I have been looking for something like this ever since I counld’t use the Solar Winds tool years ago! Thank-you so much for providing this for free!
Neil