Multicast Ping (Windows)
I am trying to implement server auto discovery so that clients will be able to see a list of servers available to connect to. I would like to auto discover servers even if they are in different subnets. I have read that windows does not respond to broadcast ping, but is it possible to make all these servers to join a multicast group and use multicast ping on the group to see what servers are up? Thanks Try Zero configuration networking (Zeroconf) . Note multiple LAN segments requires routers to be configured to route multicast traffic, they do not by default. Similarly IGMP enabled switches