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From: Christoph Gysin <cgysin@×××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:35:50
Message-Id: 43147763.802@gmx.ch
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network by Andrew Lowe
1 Andrew Lowe wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for
4 > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which
5 > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP
6 > address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless
7 > with no keyboard. Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of
8 > the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the other
9 > end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a
10 > range and reporting what addresses responded?
11 >
12 > Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
13 > Andrew
14
15 A simple "for" loop around ping would do the trick. Am I missing something?
16
17 Christoph
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network John Jolet <john@×××××.net>