traceroute

[dephcon]

i was curious if any of ya'llz knew how to perform a traceroute. i have a shell at trojan.neta.com. i jest need a general o'er view of how to send commands to it kuz all i receive is garbage when i try. dont tell me everything, i want to have a challenge.

thanks fer ya help
dephcon

[razzaj]

i dont know if that is what u are looking for ... but in windows there is an executable called "tracert.exe"

syntax : tracert ipaddress or website

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- regards -
- razzaj -

[dephcon]

ya, i knew bout it, but is there a way to pump the data that the exe gets into my vb text ****?

[N26]

Let me know if you figure it out. Maybe you can import from perl or use cgi.

[bedfordpark]

I shell to dos, then pipe the results into a file, then close dos then read the file output into my program.

If you know of a way of reading directly into VB as return value, please let me know !

[nvc944]

Private Sub tracert_Click()
If txtip.Text = "" Then
MsgBox "Please enter an IP address bellow.", 48, "No IP address"
Else
On Error Resume Next
Dim PingCommand As String
Dim Ip As String
Shell "Command.com /c tracert " & txtip.Text & " > c:\test.txt", vbHide
Open "c:\test.txt" For Input As #1
PingCommand = Input$(LOF(1), #1)
Close #1
info.Text = PingCommand
Kill "c:\test.txt"
End If
End Sub