Use Wildcards in Ping Inclusion Ranges?

[Jesse Zellmer]

Hello -

Can you use wildcards like "*" in Ping inclusion ranges (Discovery)?

Example:
10.10.*.*-10.10.*.*
10.*.*.*-10.*.*.*

Thanks!

[David Claypool]

A ping inclusion range is an instruction to HP SIM to ping each and every one of the addresses. With wildcards like you have above, 10.10.*.* would be attempt to ping over 65,000 addresses. Assuming that every single address created a response (meaning no retries) and further assuming that HP SIM spawns 3 simultaneous processes and it takes 3/4 of a second to complete the process, pinging 65,000 addresses would take over 45 hours.

It's much safer (and makes more sense) to have explicit IP inclusion ranges...