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 1EAOWB-0006c6-0y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:04:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7V91FG2017992; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:01:15 GMT Received: from dbmail-mx3.orcon.net.nz (loadbalancer2.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7V8vP7m029111 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:57:26 GMT Received: from sf.rout.dyndns.org (60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [60.234.144.216]) by dbmail-mx3.orcon.net.nz (8.13.2/8.13.2/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j7V92WMw017896 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:02:32 +1200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43156D87.5090009@gmail.com> References: <43147285.1090009@wht.com.au> <43147763.802@gmx.ch> <200508301018.52929.john@jolet.net> <4314D63F.7030303@gmx.ch> <12CAFC93-126B-48E9-9F5B-40A0D60B6F96@jolet.net> <1125470325.6068.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1125477014.22467.21.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <43156D87.5090009@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:59:30 +1200 Message-Id: <1125478771.22471.27.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> 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-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/1049/Wed Aug 31 19:19:01 2005 on dbmail-mx3.orcon.net.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 4a51eed4-34bf-4f90-8807-2bac94fefe33 X-Archives-Hash: caf938d4f5311ad20c005850475cbadf On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:42 +0800, Destromy wrote: > >> > >> > ping broadcast ? now we are going in circles. not every device responds to ping - its optional in linux and people often turn it off because of various DOS attacks based on icmp. also some OSes don't seem to respond to broadcast ping, even though they respond to ping to their own address, windows being an example. So, all techniques in this thread seem to have validity, but not all of them will work in all circumstances. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list