title: Multicast Ping (Windows)
body: <p>I am trying to implement server auto discovery so that clients will be able to see a list of servers available to connect to. I would like to auto discover servers even if they are in different subnets. </p>
  
  <p>I have read that windows does not respond to broadcast ping, but is it possible to make all these servers to join a multicast group and use multicast ping on the group to see what servers are up? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>