pingall 2.1.0

Ping everything you can reach.
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# pingall

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Utility to _quickly_ and _efficiently_ discover available IP addresses and their hostnames on your network. This program will always finish within a small timeout, much faster than `nmap 192.168.1.*`.

* Quickly find IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames on your network.
* Populate DNS/mDNS tables automatically.

## Usage

```bash
Usage: pingall [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -i, --interface <INTERFACE>  Interface to search
  -d, --dont-resolve           Don't attempt to resolve hostnames
  -r, --raw-socket             Open raw socket instead of using system `ping` command. Unix only, requires permissions
  -t, --timeout <TIMEOUT>      Timeout of pings in seconds [default: 1]
  -4, --ipv4                   Scan IPv4 addresses only
  -6, --ipv6                   Scan IPv6 addresses only
  -h, --help                   Print help
  -V, --version                Print version
```

Ping all available IP addresses:
```bash
$ pingall
192.168.0.1        router.local
192.168.0.19       SAMSUNG-GALAXY-8
192.168.0.98       raspberrypi.local
10.10.0.132
10.10.0.152        vps.local
10.10.0.243
fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456%wlan0
```

Ping only Wi-Fi addresses on `wlan0`, don't resolve hostnames:
```bash
pingall --interface wlan0 --dont-resolve
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.19
192.168.0.98
```

Scan only one address family:
```bash
pingall --ipv4
pingall --ipv6 --interface wlan0
```

## Installation
```bash
cargo install pingall
```

On Arch Linux, `pingall` is also available from the AUR as
[`pingall`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pingall) for the latest crates.io
release or [`pingall-git`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pingall-git) for
the current Git version.

## Details
By default, `pingall` scans both IPv4 and IPv6. It simultaneously pings all IPv4 addresses on your local `/24` subnets with a 1 second timeout, so we can gauge who is responsive on the network. IPv6 discovery uses the scoped all-nodes multicast address (`ff02::1%interface`) because typical IPv6 subnets are too large to sweep. [tokio](https://tokio.rs/) is used to make it all asynchronous (only 1 thread is used).

### Raw Ping
The system `ping` command is used by default. On Windows, `pingall` always uses the system `ping` command. On Unix systems, opening raw sockets requires elevated permissions. To avoid using the ping command for IPv4 sweeps, you can use the `--raw-socket` flag, but this will require either `sudo`, or running
```
setcap cap_net_raw+ep $(which pingall)
```
to give this program permission. IPv6 multicast discovery uses the system `ping` command even when raw socket mode is requested.

### Dependencies
* [cargo](https://rustup.rs/)
* [ping](https://command-not-found.com/ping)
* [avahi-resolve](https://command-not-found.com/avahi-resolve) on Linux (needed to resolve hostnames)

Hostname resolution uses `avahi-resolve` on Linux and the operating system reverse lookup APIs on Windows.