On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Saravanan S <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Raja Subramanian > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Saravanan S <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > How to discover the mac address of machines in a network? >>
>> > I need to discover the machines that are available just with only BIOS >> > installed (NO Operating System) >> > >> > And I need to find the mac address of such machines that are up. >> >> Unless a machine starts transmitting any data on the network, >> you can't find any information about it. >> >> If your BIOS attempts PXE boot, you can capture the MAC ID >> from the DHCP broadcast request. Or if you have a managed >> L2 switch, you can query its ARP table for list of all MAC IDs >> it has learned. >> > > Wake on Lan would be surely there. PXE boot needs manual/ requies agent(OS) > which is not possible. >From what I recall, the wake on lan utility "wol" requires MAC address. Please post your solution when you find it. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
