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Pinging subnet
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To answer my own question...
I thought about writing a simple bash script, until I realized I can set a minimum of a one second timeout. This of course would lead to over four minutes of scan time.
I'd forgotten I had nmap installed. Quick look at the man pages and I found a way to scan my subnet in four seconds:
Of course this only works if your hosts respond to ping. I know all of mine on my home network do.
I thought about writing a simple bash script, until I realized I can set a minimum of a one second timeout. This of course would lead to over four minutes of scan time.
I'd forgotten I had nmap installed. Quick look at the man pages and I found a way to scan my subnet in four seconds:
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nmap -n -sP 192.168.0.0/24Of course this only works if your hosts respond to ping. I know all of mine on my home network do.
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