Ping all addresses in network, windows

Question

Is it possible in windows cmd line to check all of the network addresses (with ping or similar) to see which ones are taken/ have active devices:

ie. something that does

Answer 1

for /l %%a in (254, -1, 1) do ( 
    for /l %%b in (1, 1, 254) do (
        for %%c in (20, 168) do (
            for %%e in (172, 192) do (
                ping /n 1 %%e.%%c.%%b.%%a>>ping.txt
            )
        )
    )
)
pause>nul