On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... use Ping with a Backtrack R3 machine, I am trying to find a way
> to see if I can send pings to entire subnets to see if stuff will drop...
FYI, on most Linux systems, "ping -b" will send broadcast packets.
So if you're on 192.0.2.0/24, you can do:
ping -b 192.0.2.255
Note that not all IP stacks respond to broadcast pings.
-- Ben
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