> I seem to recall a version of ping that would allow you to give it a range of
> addresses and this version of ping would step through them and record the
> ones that gave a reply. Anyone know what version of ping I am talking about?
>
Not familiar with that, but you can ping the broadcast address and get a response
back from all the hosts in a subnet:
ping -b 192.168.10.255
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