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Re: [opensuse] How to find list of hosts on local subnet?
  • From: İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:34:08 +0200
  • Message-id: <AANLkTimBpC88rOpVgog_3se=sWqOH2Q-QQW7vpFLg-kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi;

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 9:06 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Because of the dups, you can't rely on the output of pinging the
broadcast.  That is why you have to follow it with an "arp -n"

Furthermore, you don't want to sent out a stream of pings to
broadcast, two is plenty to populate your arp table.

Didn't know about fping, thanks for the explanation!

Regards,
ismail
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