Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Matthias Bethke <Matthias.Bethke@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:03:04
Message-Id: 20050831115124.GB10901@huxley.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network by Nick Rout
1 Hi Nick,
2 on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 20:30:14, you wrote:
3 > arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's
4 > cache period.
5
6 What's more, ARP resolves IP addresses to MAC addresses and the IP
7 address is what the OP wanted to find out in the first place.
8 I'd try in this order:
9 1. Broadcast ping
10 2. for n in `seq 1 254`; do ping >/dev/null -c1 -W1 192.168.0.$n; \
11 [ $? == 0 ] && echo "$n is up"; done
12 3. nmap
13
14 cheers!
15 Matthias
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