Programming a VB Ping Command ?

[Phreakazoid]

Hi,

I work for a company wich has a large WAN/LAN network topology and I had an idea to program myself a little proggie wich checks every 5 minutes if the routers are still available, the easiest way to do this is to ping the router. I would like to know if I there is an api or a self-made function wich emulate the ping command, al it needs to do is to check if he is getting a reply ;-), if it is possible the delay would be nice to.
The idea is to make a dynamic table wich holds on the one side all the site information like adress, network topology used and so on and ofcourse the IP adress of the router, I already have a special activex to create graphical maps, so I can color an site in failure red for example.

Feel free to comment and add some of your own suggestions.

Greetz
Phreakazoid

Check at vbnet they have an example of using ping in vd using the icmp.dll

http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/network/ping.htm

Hope is helps
-Azzmodan

[Phreakazoid]

The code i found on VBNET is exactly what does the trick, thanx !!