On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Austin McKinley wrote: > I'd like to have a text file, full of commands like: > > ping 1.1.1.1 > ping 2.2.2.2 > ... > ... > ... Google around for "multiping" It takes a list of hosts on the command line and pings them in parallel and produces a summary report at the end so you can parse the results.