find all active IP addresses in a network

nmap -sP 192.168.0.*
There are several other options. This one is plain and simple. Another option is: nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24
Sample Output
Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-08-31 15:04 IDT
Host 192.168.0.1 appears to be up.
Host 192.168.0.5 appears to be up.
Host somedomain.org (192.168.0.14) appears to be up.
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (5 hosts up) scanned in 1.29 seconds

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2009-08-31 12:10:16

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