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 1EAR5X-0000k1-0q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:49:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7VBjPS7013564; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:45:25 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 j7VBdSKa009770 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:39:29 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 j7VBiari010278 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:44:36 +1200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42BDB8AE-9479-40BA-9660-4E0BC9920B40@jolet.net> 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> <42BDB8AE-9479-40BA-9660-4E0BC9920B40@jolet.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:41:42 +1200 Message-Id: <1125488502.22467.41.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: 56af1450-3f63-4c4d-a4e8-831a446f4b01 X-Archives-Hash: cb56151d200cfb6a7129394ea01d4af6 On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 05:50 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: > > > > > ... what about arp? > > > > If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the > case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know > what the mac address is....then you're stuck. Not necessarily. If the machine has had network activity it may be shown by arp -e. If you have a smallish network and can identify the other machines, its a matter of elimination. i.e. you look at the list of IP addresses shown by arp -en and eliminate the ones you know. > Of course, if it's a > small, home network, you could always just turn off all the other > computers except that one and the one you're on and ask the router > who's connected. be quicker just to launch nmap and go get some coffee. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list