Ping all addresses in network windows

Question

Is it possible in windows cmd line to check all of the network addresses  with ping or similar  to see which ones are taken  have active devices   ie  something that does something like the following   for i   0 to 255     ping 192 168 1 i   Print this end   This is psuedo code obviously  I am wondering if it is possible to do something like this in windows cmd  It would be great if you didn t need a batch file  but i understand if this is impossible    PS  Also please mention if there is a program to do this  but it would be nice to do it in cmd

User · Answer

Provided the windows box is in the same subnet:

for /L %a in (1,1,254) do start ping 192.168.0.%a

This will complete in less than 15 seconds and

arp -a

will return any alive host.

Fastest native way I know of in Windows.

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I know this is a late response  but a neat way of doing this is to ping the broadcast address which populates your local arp cache   This can then be shown by running arp -a which will list all the addresses in you local arp table   ping 192 168 1 255 arp -a   Hopefully this is a nice neat option that people can use

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All you are wanting to do is to see if computers are connected to the network and to gather their IP addresses  You can utilize angryIP scanner  http   angryip org  to see what IP addresses are in use on a particular subnet or groups of subnets   I have found this tool very helpful when trying to see what IPs are being used that are not located inside of my DHCP

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Open the Command Prompt and type in the following   FOR  L  i IN  1 1 254  DO ping -n 1 192 168 10  i   FIND  i  Reply  gt  gt c  ipaddresses txt   Change 192 168 10 to match you own network   By using -n 1 you are asking for only 1 packet to be sent to each computer instead of the usual 4 packets   The above command will ping all IP Addresses on the 192 168 10 0 network and create a text document in the C   drive called ipaddresses txt     This text document should only contain IP Addresses that replied to the ping request   Although it will take quite a bit longer to complete  you can also resolve the IP Addresses to HOST names by simply adding -a to the ping command   FOR  L  i IN  1 1 254  DO ping -a -n 1 192 168 10  i   FIND  i  Reply  gt  gt c  ipaddresses txt   This is from Here  Hope this helps

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aping can provide a list of hosts and whether each has responded to pings    aping -show all 192 168 1

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ECHO OFF  IF   SUBNET       SET SUBNET 10   ARGUMENTS ECHO SUBNET  SUBNET  ECHO ARGUMENT  1  IF   1    SUM  GOTO SUM IF   1    SLOW  GOTO SLOW IF   1    ARP  GOTO ARP IF   1    FAST  GOTO FAST  REM PRINT ARP TABLE BY DEFAULT  DEFAULT ARP -a GOTO END  REM METHOD 1 ADDRESS AT A TIME  SLOW ECHO START SCAN ECHO  0  gt  ipaddresses txt DATE  T  gt  gt  ipaddresses txt TIME  T  gt  gt  ipaddresses txt FOR  L   i IN  1 1 254  DO ping -a -n 2 192 168  SUBNET    i   FIND  i  TTL     gt  gt  ipaddresses txt GOTO END  REM METHOD 2 MULTITASKING ALL ADDRESS AT SAME TIME  FAST ECHO START FAST SCANNING 192 168  SUBNET  X set  a n 0  FASTLOOP set  a n  1 ECHO 192 168  SUBNET   n  START CMD exe  c call ipaddress bat 192 168  SUBNET   n   IF  n  lss 254 GOTO FASTLOOP GOTO END   SUM ECHO START SUM ECHO  0  gt  ipaddresses txt DATE  T  gt  gt  ipaddresses txt TIME  T  gt  gt  ipaddresses txt FOR  L   i IN  1 1 254  DO TYPE ip192 168  SUBNET    i txt   FIND  i  TTL    gt  gt  ipaddresses txt FOR  L   i IN  1 1 254  DO DEL ip192 168  SUBNET    i txt type ipaddresses txt GOTO END   ARP ARP -a  gt  gt  ipaddresses txt type ipaddresses txt GOTO END    END ECHO DONE WITH IP SCANNING ECHO OPTION   0 SLOW  FOR SCANNING 1 AT A TIME ECHO OPTION   0 SUM  FOR COMBINE ALL TO FILE ECHO OPTION   0 ARP  FOR ADD ARP - IP LIST ECHO PARAMETER  SET SUBNET X  FOR SUBNET ECHO

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for  l   a in  254  -1  1  do        for  l   b in  1  1  254  do           for   c in  20  168  do               for   e in  172  192  do                   ping  n 1   e   c   b   a gt  gt ping txt                                 pause gt nul

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An expansion and useful addition to egmackenzie s  arp -a  solution for Windows -  Windows Example searching for my iPhone on the WiFi network   pre  iPhone WiFi disabled    Open Command Prompt in Admin mode  R C  Start  amp  look in menu  arp -d                    lt - clear the arp listing  ping 10 1 10 255          lt - take your subnet  and ping  255   everyone arp -a iPhone WiFi on ping 10 1 10 255 arp -a   See below for example     Here is a nice writeup on the use of  arp -d  here if interested -   TechRepublic - Quick Tips Flush the ARP cache in Windows 7

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Some things seem appeared to have changed in batch scripts on Windows 8  and the solution above by DGG now causes the Command Prompt to crash   The following solution worked for me    echo off set  a n 0  repeat set  a n  1 echo 192 168 1  n  ping -n 1 -w 500 192 168 1  n    FIND  i  Reply  gt  gt ipaddresses txt if  n  lss 254 goto repeat type ipaddresses txt

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This post asks the same question  but for linux - you may find it helpful   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   It is available for the windows platform on the nmap org site

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Best Utility in terms of speed is Nmap   write   cmd prompt       Nmap -sn -oG ip txt 192 168 1 1-255   this will just ping all the ip addresses in the range given and store it in simple text file  It takes just 2 secs to scan 255 hosts using Nmap

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