Re: [SLUG] Ping question.

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Dec 11 2005 - 03:13:35 EST


On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 01:49:13AM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote:

>
> > I seem to recall a version of ping that would allow you to give it a
> range of
> > addresses and this version of ping would step through them and record the
> > ones that gave a reply. Anyone know what version of ping I am talking
> about?
> >
> Not familiar with that, but you can ping the broadcast address and get
> a response
> back from all the hosts in a subnet:
>
> ping -b 192.168.10.255
>

As in the prior thread on this subject, note that some/many versions of
ping do not have the -b option (like mine). Ian suggested instead nmap,
which does the job.

Paul
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