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On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 05:50 -0500, John Jolet wrote: |
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> On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: |
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> > ... what about arp? |
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> If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the |
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> case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know |
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> what the mac address is....then you're stuck. |
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Not necessarily. If the machine has had network activity it may be shown |
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by arp -e. |
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If you have a smallish network and can identify the other machines, its |
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a matter of elimination. i.e. you look at the list of IP addresses shown |
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by arp -en and eliminate the ones you know. |
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> Of course, if it's a |
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> small, home network, you could always just turn off all the other |
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> computers except that one and the one you're on and ask the router |
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> who's connected. be quicker just to launch nmap and go get some coffee. |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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