* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
@ 2005-08-30 15:08 99% ` fire-eyes
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From: fire-eyes @ 2005-08-30 15:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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.
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