Fast-Ping Sweep (recommendations or tricks)

[CountDClemo]

Goal: I am trying to only use PowerShell to conduct a ping sweep and I want to perform the fastest ping sweep possible.

Research: I found a quick single line script from “https://learn-powershell.net/2011/01/31/quick-hits-ping-sweep-one-liner/” and leveraged invoke-parallel in place of foreach (%). Also, I added Where-Object {$_ -like "True"} to filter out the false and/or non-pingable IPs.

Request: So far, I can ping sweep a /24 in about 20 to 25 seconds. I want to know if anyone else has any recommendations or tricks to cut the time down (if possible) only using PowerShell.

Reason: I am looking into building a branch with a PowerShell based GUI that leverages invoke-parallel to ping sweep subnets and port scan live IPs to validate findings of other commercial and/or opensource networking products.

Script block:

Very short Script block used with invoke-parallel function

Requires change of the IP ranges to meet pinged area subnet.

There are wildcards on each side of the word True. See bottom of the attached Fast-Ping.txt

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Invoke-Parallel {

$IPsping = '192.168.3.'

"$IPsping$($): $(Test-Connection -count 1 -comp $IPsping$($) -quiet)" |

Where-Object {$_ -like "True"}}

fast-ping.txt

[Solbstr]

Hi

Try this custom class from Trevor Jones. https://smsagent.blog/posh-5-custom-classes/power-ping/

Nils

[CountDClemo]

nilssol,

Thank you, I can see some parts of the script that I can pull from to target IP ranges vs get-adcomputer. Also, I see the function "Invoke-MultiThreadedCommand" can provide a similar result to invoke-parallel. Very interesting and again think you for the info very helpful.