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* Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
  @ 2005-08-30 15:18 99%   ` John Jolet
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From: John Jolet @ 2005-08-30 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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
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