Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for
> some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which
> my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP
> address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless
> with no keyboard. Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of
> the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the other
> end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a
> range and reporting what addresses responded?
>
>     Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>         Andrew

If it reply to broadcast query this can give an answer:

#ping -b -c1 192.168.0.255

well, many answer, exclude the known ip and try the remaining ones.
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