On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:40, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:

> > Just do a broadcast ping (ping -b BROADCASTIP) in your network
> > and then type "arp -a". Now you should see all IPs/MACs in
> > your network.
> >
> :-) Good advice, but how can u ping "your" network broadcast
>
> address if u don't know it ? (Because, e.g. your dhcp client
> is not installed/broken ...)
>
> U have to use  "ping -I eth0 -b 255.255.255.255" instead,
> but it can happen not only DHCP server answers ...

That's right. :)
If you really don't know any network adresses this is not the
right method and I really don't know how to do it correctly.
Is it possible to physicaly isolate the dhcp-server? Then you
can connect only one client to it, and the broadcast should
work.

cu

lukas

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