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network ip's scannnig

 
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hi
anybody knows how can i scan the network to find the available ip's on it
 
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I guess that's not possible.

Of course you may iterate over all possible IPs, and ping them, but often firewalls drop icmp-echo-requests.
No answer isn't guaranteed to mean 'IP unused'.

If your network is the internet (it often is, isn't it?), and you would try to get every IP - what a fun for young people hanging around...

Why do you need it?
 
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...plus there are problems of machines being turned off at that particular time, but which may still use a given IP.

Even if your network is using a DHCP server, I don't think there is a way to find out the available addresses - just a way to be assigned a new one.
 
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... and (as I found out the hard way) it shows up as a port scan on any intrusion detection systems
 
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