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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:14:02
Message-Id: 200508301001.47275.john@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network by Andrew Lowe
1 emerge nmap
2 On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:51, Andrew Lowe wrote:
3 > Hi all,
4 > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for
5 > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which
6 > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP
7 > address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless
8 > with no keyboard. Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of
9 > the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the other
10 > end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a
11 > range and reporting what addresses responded?
12 >
13 > Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
14 > Andrew
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