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
All you are wanting to do is to see if computers are connected to the network and to gather their IP addresses. You can utilize angryIP scanner: http://angryip.org/ to see what IP addresses are in use on a particular subnet or groups of subnets.
I have found this tool very helpful when trying to see what IPs are being used that are not located inside of my DHCP.
Open the Command Prompt and type in the following:
FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -n 1 192.168.10.%i | FIND /i "Reply">>c:\ipaddresses.txt
Change 192.168.10 to match you own network.
By using -n 1 you are asking for only 1 packet to be sent to each computer instead of the usual 4 packets.
The above command will ping all IP Addresses on the 192.168.10.0 network and create a text document in the C:\ drive called ipaddresses.txt. This text document should only contain IP Addresses that replied to the ping request.
Although it will take quite a bit longer to complete, you can also resolve the IP Addresses to HOST names by simply adding -a to the ping command.
FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -a -n 1 192.168.10.%i | FIND /i "Reply">>c:\ipaddresses.txt
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Hope this helps
@ECHO OFF
IF "%SUBNET%"=="" SET SUBNET=10
:ARGUMENTS
ECHO SUBNET=%SUBNET%
ECHO ARGUMENT %1
IF "%1"=="SUM" GOTO SUM
IF "%1"=="SLOW" GOTO SLOW
IF "%1"=="ARP" GOTO ARP
IF "%1"=="FAST" GOTO FAST
REM PRINT ARP TABLE BY DEFAULT
:DEFAULT
ARP -a
GOTO END
REM METHOD 1 ADDRESS AT A TIME
:SLOW
ECHO START SCAN
ECHO %0 > ipaddresses.txt
DATE /T >> ipaddresses.txt
TIME /T >> ipaddresses.txt
FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -a -n 2 192.168.%SUBNET%.%%i | FIND /i "TTL=" >> ipaddresses.txt
GOTO END
REM METHOD 2 MULTITASKING ALL ADDRESS AT SAME TIME
:FAST
ECHO START FAST SCANNING 192.168.%SUBNET%.X
set /a n=0
:FASTLOOP
set /a n+=1
ECHO 192.168.%SUBNET%.%n%
START CMD.exe /c call ipaddress.bat 192.168.%SUBNET%.%n%
IF %n% lss 254 GOTO FASTLOOP
GOTO END
:SUM
ECHO START SUM
ECHO %0 > ipaddresses.txt
DATE /T >> ipaddresses.txt
TIME /T >> ipaddresses.txt
FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,254) DO TYPE ip192.168.%SUBNET%.%%i.txt | FIND /i "TTL=" >> ipaddresses.txt
FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,254) DO DEL ip192.168.%SUBNET%.%%i.txt
type ipaddresses.txt
GOTO END
:ARP
ARP -a >> ipaddresses.txt
type ipaddresses.txt
GOTO END
:END
ECHO DONE WITH IP SCANNING
ECHO OPTION "%0 SLOW" FOR SCANNING 1 AT A TIME
ECHO OPTION "%0 SUM" FOR COMBINE ALL TO FILE
ECHO OPTION "%0 ARP" FOR ADD ARP - IP LIST
ECHO PARAMETER "SET SUBNET=X" FOR SUBNET
ECHO.
Some things seem appeared to have changed in batch scripts on Windows 8, and the solution above by DGG now causes the Command Prompt to crash.
The following solution worked for me:
@echo off
set /a n=0
:repeat
set /a n+=1
echo 192.168.1.%n%
ping -n 1 -w 500 192.168.1.%n% | FIND /i "Reply">>ipaddresses.txt
if %n% lss 254 goto repeat
type ipaddresses.txt
This post asks the same question, but for linux - you may find it helpful. Send a ping to each IP on a subnet
nmap is probably the best tool to use, as it can help identify host OS as well as being faster. It is available for the windows platform on the nmap.org site
aping can provide a list of hosts and whether each has responded to pings.
aping -show all 192.168.1.*