RE: Can I Determine Client IP Address?

What's wrong with a straightforward single ping? The response should be a sub 100ms > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Prose [mailto:fprose@supreme.sp.state.az.us] > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:00 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Can I Determine Client IP Address? > > > Is there a way to determine the IP Address of a client PC connected to > Informix? I see where the Hostname (TTY) is available, but > we don't run > DNS, so there's no way to resolve it that way. > > What I'm looking to do is this: > > 1. Create a security/transaction log that records who and > from where a > client connected. > > 2. Provide a mechanism (through a CRON activity) that > performs a PING and a > TRACEROUTE on a connected client on a periodic basis and records the > results. This is primarily in response to complaints that > the server is > "too slow". Any measurements we take indicate sub-second > response "on the > box" but, depending upon when and where connections occur, > certain users are > complaining. It would be nice to counter emotions with fact. > It would be > nice if our networking folks could do this for me.... > > Thanks. > > > > ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************