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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 15:39:06
Message-Id: 200508301018.52929.john@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network by Christoph Gysin
1 yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap
2 -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open.
3 Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which one is the
4 solaris or sunos machine...
5
6 On Tuesday 30 August 2005 10:12, Christoph Gysin wrote:
7 > Andrew Lowe wrote:
8 > > Hi all,
9 > > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for
10 > > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which
11 > > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP
12 > > address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless
13 > > with no keyboard. Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of
14 > > the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the other
15 > > end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a
16 > > range and reporting what addresses responded?
17 > >
18 > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
19 > > Andrew
20 >
21 > A simple "for" loop around ping would do the trick. Am I missing something?
22 >
23 > Christoph
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network Christoph Gysin <cgysin@×××.ch>