Send a ping to each IP on a subnet

Question

Is there a command line based way to send pings to each computer in a subnet? Like

for(int i = 1; i < 254; i++)
    ping(192.168.1.i);

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Answer 1

I came late but here is a little script I made for this purpose that I run in Windows PowerShell. You should be able to copy and paste it into the ISE. This will then run the arp command and save the results into a .txt file and open it in notepad.

# Declare Variables
$MyIpAddress
$MyIpAddressLast

# Declare Variable And Get User Inputs
$IpFirstThree=Read-Host 'What is the first three octects of you IP addresses please include the last period?'
$IpStart=Read-Host 'Which IP Address do you want to start with? Include NO periods.'
$IpEnd=Read-Host 'Which IP Address do you want to end with? Include NO periods.'
$SaveMyFilePath=Read-Host 'Enter the file path and name you want for the text file results.'
$PingTries=Read-Host 'Enter the number of times you want to try pinging each address.'

#Run from start ip and ping
#Run the arp -a and output the results to a text file
#Then launch notepad and open the results file
Foreach($MyIpAddressLast in $IpStart..$IpEnd)
{$MyIpAddress=$IpFirstThree+$MyIpAddressLast
    Test-Connection -computername $MyIpAddress -Count $PingTries}
arp -a | Out-File $SaveMyFilePath
notepad.exe $SaveMyFilePath