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

Flooding the network with ICMP is not a good idea.

You might want to consider some kind of thread pool and queue up the ping requests and have a fixed number of threads doing the requests.