[ILUG] network discovery...

[John P . Looney]

 I'm trying to work out what hosts are on a network. I thought it would be
just a matter of doing a broadcast ping, but it seems at least some
machines don't respond to it (like Win98 machines, for a start) - which
they are perfectly entitled to do.

 Is there any other ways to do this ? Dodgy multicast packets probably
aren't cunning either. And I really don't want to have to go through the
entire network, pinging the machines individually...though it's looking
that way.

Kate

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