[ale] Network Utility

[Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam]

Nope .. Windows machines do not reply to the bcast address. One of the ways to find the machines on a subnet is to sniff the arp packets and map them ..

Regards,
Vaidhy

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:27:23AM -0400, Jeffery Tillotson wrote:
> > You probably can also ping the broadcast address on that subnet.  You
> should
> > get a reply from all machines on that network.  Then do a diff against
> your
> > previous arp table to find changes.
> >
> 
> Will Windows boxes return addresses if you ping the broadcast address?  I
> thought I read somewhere that Windows machines do not use the broadcast
> address properly.  In fact I just tried it here ping x.x.x.x -b and
> everything returned except the Windows machines in my subnet.
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> 
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