Jul 11, 2015 · Not all machines will answer a broadcast ping. (all broadcast -- 255.255.255.255, or subnet broadcast -- eg. x.x.x.255) Some see it as a "security feature", because one could spoof the origin to flood any host on the network.

Sep 29, 2016 · 255.255.255.255 is a broadcast address, you are sending a ping to every device on your local network and you will get a reply from every device. The ping command is only showing the first reply it gets, in your case your own PC (127.0.0.1 is loopback) was the quickest.

Dec 5, 2012 · 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.

As mentioned 255.255.255.255 is a broadcast address. You'll see it as FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF in the MAC address on your captures. Devices typically talk to that when they're doing things such as sending an ARP request to find another device or the default-gateway of the subnet.

Oct 8, 2014 · 255.255.255.255 is a broadcast address, you are sending a ping to every device on your local network and you will get a reply from every device. The ping command is only showing the first reply it gets, in your case your own PC (127.0.0.1 is loopback) was the quickest.

On a Windows system, you can ping the broadcast address like this: 192.168.1.255 and you MAY get multiple responses back. You probably will not see responses from Windows-based host.

Apr 1, 2025 · Broadcast and Network PING Command. There may be a need to view all IPs in a particular subnet of Cisco Router. This simple command will send query to Network ID or Broadcast ID of the Subnet and get response from all the live IPs in the subnet.

Mar 15, 2014 · for /l %i in (1,1,255) do ping -n 1 192.168.0.%i | find /i "Reply" says to: Do a loop of pings from 1, counting up 1 each time, until you reach 255, while waiting for only 1 response on the specified network of 192.168.0.XXX. To specify From A …

Feb 16, 2014 · You could alternativly ping the all-host multicast group which uses the IP 224.0.0.1. In theory every multicast capable host should respond to a ping to this IP, but I've heard of hosts not doing so. For more on multicast addresses read the tldp: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO-2.html

Nov 29, 2019 · - some device in a remote subnet executes ping 192.168.0.0 and since the destination is remote it sends the IP packet to its default gateway. - that gateway device looks in its routing table for an entry for 192.168.0.0 and makes the appropriate forwarding decision.