Ping Sweep Tool

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Angry IP Scanner implements several different methods of detecting alive hosts (pinging).

As a rule, if hosts don’t respond to pings, they are considered dead and therefore not scanned further. This behavior can be changed in the Preferences dialog, Scanning tab. In the same place you can also select the pinging method.

Ping Sweep is a technique used to identify if the hosts are alive in the networks using their IP addresses. The Ping Sweep method is used to ping many hosts at once. For example, if. Ping Sweep with Pinkie. Pinkie by IPUptime is another 100% free set of network troubleshooting tools bundled into an easy-to-use single pane of glass. Its management console bundles tools such as Ping, DNS, Traceroute, Ping Sweep, Subnet Calculator, Port Scanner, Bulk DNS, and TFTP.

ICMP Echo pinging

This is the same method used by the ping program.

However, as it involves sending of ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) packets, it requires administrative (or root) privileges. If Angry IP Scanner runs without these privileges, this method can’t be used.

Angry IP Scanner implements this using the Raw Sockets. However, starting with Windows XP SP2, Microsoft has removed Raw Socket support from consumer versions of Windows (Server editions still have them), so this method will not work on Windows anymore.

ICMP.DLL pinging

This is Windows-only pinging method to compensate for absence of Raw Sockets (see above).

Angry IP Scanner can now use the previously undocumented ICMP.DLL library to send ICMP Echo packets from Windows machines. This should provide similar performance to pure ICMP Echo pinging on other platforms.

UDP packet pinging

This pinging method is preferred when you don’t have administrative privileges. Angry IP Scanner will detect the absence of privileges and use this method automatically.

The method works by sending out UDP packets to some UDP port very unlikely to be open. If the port is closed, the host must send the ICMP packet back informing of the fact. If the packet is reseived, Angry IP Scanner knows that the host is actually alive and records the roundtrip time. No response can mean that the UDP port is open (very unlikely) or the host is dead.

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Note:

  • Some network devices (such as home routers) don’t implement UDP protocol at all and therefore appear as dead.
  • For computers, this method can actually sometimes work even better than ICMP Echo, because some administrators/firewalls tend to block ICMP Echo packets, but allow UDP packets to travel freely.

TCP port probe

This method tries to connect to some TCP port that is unlikely to be filtered (e.g. 80). If either the connection can be established or TCP RST packet is received (meaning that port is closed), Angry IP Scanner knows that host actually responds and can be considered as alive. If the port is filtered (no response to connection attempt), then the host is considered to be dead.

PingInfoView v2.16 - Ping monitor utility
Copyright (c) 2008 - 2021 Nir Sofer

See Also

  • How to send email message when a ping fails using the PingInfoView tool.
  • LiveTcpUdpWatch - View all TCP/UDP activity on your system.
  • NetResView - View all computers/shares on your network.
  • FastResolver - Host Names/IP Addresses/MAC Address Scanner

Description

PingInfoView is a small utility that allows you to easily ping multiple host names and IP addresses, and watch the result in one table.It automatically ping to all hosts every number of seconds that you specify, and displays the number of succeed and failed pings, as wellas the average ping time.You can also save the ping result into text/html/xml file, or copy it to the clipboard.

System Requirements

This utility works under Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.Older versions of Windows are not supported.

Versions History

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  • Version 2.16
    • Fixed the 'Execute the following command on success ping (After previous failure)' option (Added in version 2.15) to work according to the 'Number of consecutive failed pings to trigger the failed command/sound alert' option.For example: if you set the 'Number of consecutive failed pings...' value to 3, and there are 2 failed pings and then a success ping, PingInfoView will not activate the success command.
  • Version 2.15
    • Added new option: 'Execute the following command on success ping (After previous failure)' (In 'Advanced Options' window).
    • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
  • Version 2.10
    • Added new lower pane mode: 'Add ping line for every change in ping status'. When you choose this mode, a new ping line is added to the lower pane only when there is a change in the ping status.
    • For example: if you have a sequence of 10 succeeded pings and then a sequence of 5 failed pings, you'll see 2 lines in the lower pane - one line for the 10 succeeded pings and one line for the 5 failed pings.
    • The new 'Pings Count' column displays the number of failed/succeeded pings. The 'Sent On' column displays the time range of the succeeded/failed pings.
  • Version 2.05
    • Added 'Display Mode' option (Under the Options menu), which allows you to view only the hosts with succeeded pings or to view only the hosts with failed pings.
    • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option (Turned on by default).
  • Version 2.02
    • Added new column: 'Total Sent Pings'.
  • Version 2.01
    • Added 'Start As Hidden' option (Enabled only when 'Put Icon On Tray' option is on).
    • When both 'Start As Hidden' and 'Put Icon On Tray' options are turned on - PingInfoView starts to ping instantly when you run it without displaying the main window.
  • Version 2.00
    • Added support for TCP pings. You can now specify the host name or IP address with a port number (e.g: 192.168.0.100:80 192.168.1.10:443 www.nirsoft.net:443 ) and PingInfoView will check the TCP conection in the specified port number instead of using ICMP pings.
  • Version 1.86
    • Added option to specify IP addresses range in CIDR format (e.g: 192.168.0.0/24)
    • Added option to choose another font (name and size) to display in the main window.
  • Version 1.85
    • Added IP options: Time To Live and Don't Fragment.
  • Version 1.82
    • Fixed to sort properly the 'Last Succeed On' and 'Last Failed On' columns.
  • Version 1.81
    • Fixed bug with resizing the 'Ping Options' window.
  • Version 1.80
    • Added new option: Beep On Succeeded Pings (After Failure).
    • Fixed bug: When the lower pane option was turned off, PingInfoView didn't add the pings to the log file.
  • Version 1.75
    • Added 'Resolve host name to IP address on every ping' option. If the IP address of the host you ping may change, you should turn on this option , so whenthe IP address is changed, PingInfoView will ping the new IP address.
    • Added new option in 'Advanced Options' window: 'Limit the total number of accumulated pings' (Default is 50000). If you run PingInfoView for long period of time, you should use this option.Otherwise, the accumuated ping result will consume a lot of memory, and eventually PingInfoView will respond very slowly or crash.
    • Added 'Window Title' field. The text you type here will appear in the title of the main window.
  • Version 1.70
    • Automatic export feature: You can now choose to generate a new filename on every session (When you close the program and then run it again) or on every save. You can also generate a filename with date/time (e.g: ping20170925112130.csv) instead of numeric counter.
  • Version 1.65
    • The 'Consecutive Failed Count' column now keeps the last value when pings are ok again.
    • Added 'Max Consecutive Failed Count' column which displays the maximum number of consecutive failed pings and 'Max Consecutive Failed Time' which displays the date/time thatthe maximum number of consecutive failed pings was detected.
    • Added 'Add only failed pings' option to the 'Lower Pane Mode' in 'Advanced Options' window.
  • Version 1.60
    • Added option to automatically export the current pings status to a file (csv/tab-delimited/html/xml) every xx seconds (In 'Advanced Options' window).
    • Added option to execute a command on ping failure.
    • Added option to specify the number of consecutive failed pings to trigger the sound/beep alert and the failed command executaion.
    • Added 'Consecutive Failed Count' column.
  • Version 1.55
    • Added option to choose the type of beep/sound to use when a ping fails (In 'Advanced Options' window).
    • Added option to add all ping results or only the failed pings into a comma-delimited or tab-delimited log file (In 'Advanced Options' window).
    • Added option to stop adding the ping results into the lower pane (In 'Advanced Options' window). It's recommended to use this option if you have large amount of pings, because the accumulation of ping results consumes a lot of memory and eventually causes PingInfoView to crash.
    • When 'Use IP-Host Description format' option is turned on, PingInfoView now adds the IP address even if it doesn't have a description.
  • Version 1.51
    • On IP-Host format, if you put '#' in the beginning of the line, PingInfoView will consider it as a remark line and ignore it.
  • Version 1.50
    • Added option to specify the ping size (The default is 32 bytes).
    • Added 'Order' column, which specifies the original order of hosts, as you typed in the 'Ping Options' window.
  • Version 1.45
    • Added option to control the maximum number of concurrent pings (In 'Advanced Options' window - F9). The default value is 500.
    • Fixed bug: PingInfoView failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
  • Version 1.43
    • Fixed bug: When using PingInfoView from command-line, /IPHostDescFormat and some other command-line options failed to work properly.
  • Version 1.42
    • Fixed issue: When editing PingInfoView_hosts.txt with external editor that adds Byte order mark to the file, PingInfoView failed tohandle the first host name.
  • Version 1.41
    • Added 'Sort On Every Update' option.
  • Version 1.40
    • Added 'Auto Scroll Lower Pane' option.
    • Fixed bug: In some circumstances, when using 'Copy Selected Items' on the lower pane, PingInfoView copied the wrong items or crashed.
    • Improved the ability of PingInfoView to handle hundreds or thousants of IP addresses in the same time.
  • Version 1.36
    • Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers.
    • Fixed issue: The properties and the options windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
  • Version 1.35
    • Added a lower pane that lists the result of all pings for the selected IP address in the upper pane.(You can disable this feature by unchecking the 'Show Lower Pane' option under the Options menu)
  • Version 1.30
    • PingInfoView now resolves the IP addresses and displays the result under the 'Host Name' column.
    • Added 'Minimum Ping Time' and 'Maximum Ping Time' columns.
  • Version 1.28
    • Fixed the sorting problem of 'IP Address' and 'Reply IP Address' column.
  • Version 1.27
    • Made another workaround that hopefully will solve the mysterious problem that people report where PingInfoView stop pinging after hours of continuous work.PingInfoView now check the pinging status, and if the pings stoped from some reason, PingInfoView should start them again.
  • Version 1.26
    • Added command-line options to make a single ping test and save it to html/text/xml/csv file.
    • Fixed some problems with the xml file.
  • Version 1.25
    • New column: Last Succeed On.
    • New column: Last Failed On.
    • The % Failed value now shows the value in accuracy of 0.01% instead of interger values in previous versions.
  • Version 1.20
    • New column: % Failed.
    • New option: Beep On Failed Pings.
    • New option: Put Icon On Tray.
  • Version 1.18
    • Fixed bug: The size of addresses list text-box was limited to 32 KB.
  • Version 1.17
    • Added new option: Start pinging immediately without displaying this dialog-box.
  • Version 1.16
    • Added more accelerator keys.
  • Version 1.15
    • Added support for IP Range (For example: 192.168.0.10-192.168.0.20)
    • Added support for IP-Host Description format. (See below)
    • Fixed bug: PingInfoView continued to ping even when 'Ping every...' option is unchecked.
  • Version 1.10
    • Added command-line support.
    • Added 'Always On Top' option.
    • Added Drag & Drop support - You can drag a text file containing IP addresses into the main window of PingInfoView.
    • Added 'Start Pinging' option. (Start again after you previously used the Stop option)
    • Added 'Reset' option.
    • Added 'Load Addresses From File' option.
  • Version 1.06
    • Fixed sorting problems in some columns.
  • Version 1.05
    • Automatically save the hosts list and load it in the next time that you use PingInfoView utility.
    • Fixed the IP address sorting.
    • The 'Ping Options' dialog-box is now resizable.
  • Version 1.01 - Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to PingInfoView.
  • Version 1.00 - First release.

Using PingInfoView

PingInfoView doesn't require any installation process or additional dll files.In order to start using it, simply run the executable file (PingInfoView.exe), type the host names and IP addresses thatyou want to ping, and click the 'Ok' button to start pinging.
Starting from version 2.00, you can also specify a TCP port number (e.g: 192.168.0.100:80 192.168.1.10:443 ) in order to test a TCP connection (TCP Ping) instead of using ICMP pings.Be aware that PingInfoView only tests the TCP connection itself, it doesn't try to send or receive data from the server.

Known Issues

  • If you ping to a lot of hosts concurrently, PingInfoView may return a failed result to some of the hosts, even if the hosts are ok. In order to solve this issue, go to the 'Advanced Options' and decrease the maximum number of concurrent pings.

Use IP-Host Description format

When this option is selected, you should specify the IP addresses list in the following format:The description of each IP address is automatically added to the description column.When port number is specified, TCP ping is used instead of ICMP ping.If you add '#' character in the beginning of the line, PingInfoView will ignore it.

Command-Line Options

/stab <Filename>Make a single ping test and save the result into a tab-delimited text file.
/stabular <Filename>Make a single ping test and save the result into a tabular text file.
/sverhtml <Filename>Make a single ping test and save the result into HTML file (Vertical).
/loadfile <filename>Load the specified filename that contains host names and/or IP addresses.You can use this command-line option in conjunction with the above save commands (/scomm, /stab, and so on)
/PingEvery <0 | 1>Specifies whether to ping every xx seconds (0 - No, 1 - Yes)
/IPHostDescFormat <0 | 1>Specifies whether to use the IP-Host Description mode (0 - No, 1 - Yes)

Translating PingInfoView to other languages

Ping Sweep ToolIn order to translate PingInfoView to other language, follow the instructions below:
  1. Run PingInfoView with /savelangfile parameter:
    PingInfoView.exe /savelangfile
    A file named PingInfoView_lng.ini will be created in the folder of PingInfoView utility.
  2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
  3. Translate all string entries to the desired language.Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it'll be used in the 'About' window.
  4. After you finish the translation, Run PingInfoView, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
    If you want to run PingInfoView without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.

License

This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files inthe distribution package, without any modification !

Disclaimer

The software is provided 'AS IS' without any warranty, either expressed or implied,including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitnessfor a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any special, incidental,consequential or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason.

Feedback

If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my utility, you can send a message to nirsofer@yahoo.com

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Download PingInfoView

PingInfoView is also available in other languages. In order to change the language of PingInfoView, download the appropriate language zip file, extract the 'pinginfoview_lng.ini', and put it in the same folder that you Installed PingInfoView utility.

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LanguageTranslated ByDateVersion
ArabicAbo Rehaam13/04/20111.28
Brazilian PortugueseDavid Rodrigues15/05/20212.16
CroatianDownload.hr11/07/2016
CroatianIvan Rožić15/02/2017
CzechTomáš Kadeřábek27/05/20191.82
DutchJan Verheijen22/04/20212.16
French17/07/20171.65
Frenchpapoo/Largo20/08/20181.80
German«Latino» auf WinTotal.de21/04/20212.16
HungarianGábor Ökrös26/05/2013
Italianbovirus e Mirco 'mip' Paesante10/03/20212.15
Japaneseyouzeeen01/05/20212.16
KoreanKORwincmd29/05/2015
Koreanmjstory09/09/2018
PolishHightower10/05/20212.16
RomanianJaff (Oprea Nicolae)23/01/20161.51
RussianP.Kravchenko && Dm.Yerokhin09/03/20212.15
Simplified ChineseDickMoore20/03/20212.15
Simplified ChineseMaowei14/06/20191.85
Simplified ChineseMr.lin06/03/20202.02
SerbianMiloљ Simiж - System Administrator28/04/2017
SlovakFrantišek Fico27/04/20212.16
SpanishPaco Fdez + Francisco L. Pimentel22/08/2020
Traditional ChineseFung09/04/20212.15
Traditional ChineseDanfong Hsieh10/03/20212.15
TurkishCemil Kaynar26/05/20171.60
Valencianvjatv24/04/2008

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