ping broadcast address ( ping and nmap )

$ nmap -n -sP 10.0.0.0/24

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2009-02-02 07:41 CST
Host 10.0.0.1 appears to be up.
Host 10.0.0.10 appears to be up.
Host 10.0.0.104 appears to be up.
Host 10.0.0.124 appears to be up.
Host 10.0.0.125 appears to be up.
Host 10.0.0.129 appears to be up.
Nmap finished: 256 IP addresses (6 hosts up) scanned in 2.365 seconds



 
 

     
     

     
     

      
      
Broadcast ping:
      
      
$ ping 192.168.1.255
PING 192.168.1.255 (192.168.1.255): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.154: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.104 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.51: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.058 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.151: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.135 ms (DUP!)
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(Add a -b option on Linux)