On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 15:15, Munir Nassar wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Clay Fandre wrote:
>
> > nmap? fping? ping in a shell loop?
>
> how about ping -b <broadcast> ?
>
> all hosts in that subnet should reply.
Many systems don't respond to this anymore. Linux systems can be told
to ignore broadcast pings with
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
And I've even noticed that some Windows systems don't respond to
broadcast pings anymore.
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