Which command lets a tester enumerate alive systems in a class C network via ICMP using native Windows tools?

`ping 192.168.2.` is syntactically incomplete and does not resolve to a valid IP address, so the command will fail without pinging any host.

`ping 192.168.2.255` targets only the directed broadcast address of the subnet and does not send ICMP requests to individual hosts; most modern operating systems also ignore or drop broadcast pings.

`for %V in (1 1 255) do PING 192.168.2.%V` omits the required /L flag, so the for loop treats the parenthesized values as a file set rather than a numeric range and will not iterate through host addresses correctly.

The command `for /L %V in (1 1 254) do PING -n 1 192.168.2.%V | FIND /I "Reply"` uses the Windows for /L construct to iterate numerically from 1 to 254 in steps of 1, covering all valid host addresses in a Class C network. The -n 1 flag limits each ping to a single ICMP echo request for speed, and piping to FIND /I "Reply" filters output to show only hosts that responded. This entire workflow relies solely on built-in Windows tools with no third-party dependencies.