Ping broadcast ip windows

Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 8 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 52k times. How can I enable response to broadcast ping? Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Indrek Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Iam using linux. I read somewhere in the internet that pinging the And it will return every ip addresses in that subnet. I am only getting the reply from only one ip. Not all machines will answer a broadcast ping.

Many modern OS are now disabling response to the broadcast. They ignore them to avoid security issues. If you're using linux, check your system with sysctl net. You won't receive any packets from other machines since other machines may also have similar settings. Try this on all the machines of your network to receive packets from them when pinging the broadcast address. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Then what can you propose to identify those existed devices, but not identified using ping?

Best Utility in terms of speed is Nmap. Suraj Singh 3, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. On my machine it took slightly longer than 2 seconds maybe 10? Fastest native way I know of in Windows. Andrew Myers 2, 5 5 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Vigbjorn Vigbjorn 91 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. And you should arp -d before to delete any old entries to get just alive hosts. Stephan But that also changes the output order to not be sequential.

NetMage it doesn't have to be sequential - it's just to fill the arp database, which displays its entries sequentially anyway. Send a ping to each IP on a subnet nmap is probably the best tool to use, as it can help identify host OS as well as being faster. Hack5 2, 17 17 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Paul Allen Paul Allen 1 1 silver badge 9 9 bronze badges. Yeah, I have done it in Linux plenty of times, but not in windows. J-Dizzle J-Dizzle 4, 4 4 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges.

Benjamin Trent Benjamin Trent 7, 3 3 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges. The link you provided is giving a Attachments: Up to 10 attachments including images can be used with a maximum of 3. You could accept the useful reply as answer if you want to end this thread up. If there is anything else we can do for you, please feel free to post in the forum. If your subnet is Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice.