Help with using System.Net.Network... in VB

[batcater98]

Explanation of what I am trying to do: Working on an application that I want to be able to ping an IP address that I get from a sql table. If that address responds I then want to issue some command line commands to that IP address such as I do through an XTerm application that communicates via TCP/IP over Port 4008. Example of XTerm app would be PComm or any other ASCII based communication package.

Any ideas or help in getting started on this would be helpful, I am stuck just getting this concept off the ground.

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[JohnH]

See this post about Ping class usage example.

For communication you can use the TcpClient, starter sample:

Dim c As New Net.Sockets.TcpClient(ip, 4008)
Dim writer As New IO.StreamWriter(c.GetStream)
writer.WriteLine("command to send")
c.GetStream.Close()
c.Close()