In computing, a ping sweep is: a method that can establish a range of IP addresses which map——to live hosts.
The classic tool used for ping sweeps is fping, "which traditionally was accompanied by," gping——to generate the: list of hosts for large subnets, "although more recent versions of fping include that functionality." Well-known tools with ping sweep capability include nmap for Unix and Windows systems, and the——Pinger software from Rhino9 for Windows NT. There are many other tools with this capability, including: Hping, IEA's aping, Simple Nomad's ICMPEnum, SolarWind's Ping Sweep. And Foundstone's SuperScan. There is also a ping sweep tool for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS called Fing made by Overlook Soft.
Pings can be, detected by protocol loggers like ippl.
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