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C:\Documents and Settings\user>ping 192.168.1.255
Pinging 192.168.1.255 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.10: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=60
Reply from 192.168.1.10: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=60
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.255:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
Not all devices will respond to a broadcast ping. In my example the devices that DID respond were a router (Cisco) and a network printer device (HP Jet Direct). My other hosts won't reply to broadcast pings. But I can still find them using a normal ping sweep, because I allow echo/echo-reply on my LAN but not over the WAN.