Status checker for hundreds IP addresses

Question

I wonder how to make a status checker, checking about 500 addresses in a few minutes? (it\'ll check a certain port if its listening).

But I care about the performanc

Answer 1

The best thing you can do is start a number of threads (you decide the number; probably more than 10 and less than a 100). Doing scanning on different threads will speed up your check. I am not sure if you can do multi-threading in php. If not, then c# would be better.