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On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:51 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC |
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> box for |
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> some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, |
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> which |
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> my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP |
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> address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also |
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> headless |
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> with no keyboard. Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of |
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> the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the |
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> other |
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> end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in |
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> a |
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> range and reporting what addresses responded? |
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Nmap is what you want. It can do far more advanced things, too. But to |
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do a simple ping sweep (and portscan anything that it finds, which will |
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then reveal the IP): |
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nmap -T4 -F 192.168.0.* |
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You may need to tell it 192.168.0.0/24 instead. |
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