[ale] Network Utility

[jeffx at jeffx.com (Jeffery Tillotson)]

> You probably can also ping the broadcast address on that subnet.  You
should
> get a reply from all machines on that network.  Then do a diff against
your
> previous arp table to find changes.
>

Will Windows boxes return addresses if you ping the broadcast address?  I
thought I read somewhere that Windows machines do not use the broadcast
address properly.  In fact I just tried it here ping x.x.x.x -b and
everything returned except the Windows machines in my subnet.

Just wondering.


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