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 1EA8CY-0004BR-56 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:39:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UFVvA7010171; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:31:57 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-50-226.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.50.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UFGdZA014367 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:16:40 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E19118035 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:18:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18097-01-4 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:18:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (206-127-19-240.fwd.datafoundry.com [206.127.19.240]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC2C18031 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:18:45 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:18:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <43147285.1090009@wht.com.au> <43147763.802@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <43147763.802@gmx.ch> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508301018.52929.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 09af3196-28a4-4d78-8422-aabaf2fd701b X-Archives-Hash: a64797095d7b748b9cb57420d6666792 yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta have SOME port open. Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which one is the solaris or sunos machine... On Tuesday 30 August 2005 10:12, Christoph Gysin wrote: > 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? > > > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew > > A simple "for" loop around ping would do the trick. Am I missing something? > > Christoph > -- > echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3 -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list