What's the best way to ping many network devices in parallel?

Question

I poll a lot of devices in network (more than 300) by iterative ping.

The program polls the devices sequentially, so it\'s slow. I\'d like to enhance the speed of pollin

Answer 1

Do you need a response from every machine on the network, or are these 300 machines just a subset of the larger network?

If you need a response from every machine, you could consider using a broadcast address or multicast address for your echo request.