From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EA7zZ-0002we-ER for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:25:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UFIPYM030197; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:18:25 GMT Received: from core1.needhosting.net (core1.needhosting.net [65.254.55.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UF6IRc029371 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:06:18 GMT Received: from adsl-69-212-227-98.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net ([69.212.227.98] helo=[192.168.1.2] ident=GsMqBBzFSad) by core1.needhosting.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.52) id 1EA7io-0000zm-V1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:08:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network From: fire-eyes To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43147285.1090009@wht.com.au> References: <43147285.1090009@wht.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: fire-eyes.org Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:08:21 -0400 Message-Id: <1125414501.22084.9.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - core1.needhosting.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fire-eyes.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: 120bcd56-24a9-46bb-99e6-cba26ce3e7de X-Archives-Hash: 7bf750a313383052bd843ba08ac8bd9a On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:51 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC > box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, > which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also > headless > with no keyboard. Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of > the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the > other > end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in > a > range and reporting what addresses responded? Nmap is what you want. It can do far more advanced things, too. But to do a simple ping sweep (and portscan anything that it finds, which will then reveal the IP): nmap -T4 -F 192.168.0.* You may need to tell it 192.168.0.0/24 instead. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list