script or other suggestion

[Vivek J. Patankar]

chloe K wrote:
> I have ip list in my network
> I need to check which ip is unused
> what is better solution?
> Write the ping script or use other command
> eg: 
> for i in ip.txt
> ping -c 3 $i

If you have nmap installed you can use that to do the job. From the nmap 
man page...

  $ nmap -v -sP 192.168.0.0/16

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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