Guess it is probably time to visit each system and do ipconfings :( At 10:42 PM 4/23/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Yeah, but you can't even imagine the trouble it is to convince this >management. To them, users should be able to have all freedom, but I >should be able to monitor EVERYTHING they do! > >I just can't seem to be able to implemement any tool to be able to >discover at any time all the computers connected and some information >about them! > >I think I'm just provably screwed! > >Filipe Joel de Almeida >Network Consultant >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Anthony L. >Sollars >Sent: ter�a-feira, 23 de Abril de 2002 19:51 >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: RE: Network discovery > >Sounds like you have some policy decisions to make, like not allowing >this >type of behavior to occur on the network. For on eI don't allow peoples >personal machines on my network. Seems like there is no easy fix for >your >problem, rather you need to accept the realization that they did an >extrememly poor job of IT upkeep. you may just need to convince >management >to take a bottom up view this problem, and start with the bare >essentials by >doing a complete physical inventory. Find out who is accessing the >network >and why, then advice them to stop. I would also sit down and scope out a >network access policy and the security implementations. > >-TOny > >-----Original Message----- >From: Filipe Joel de Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:54 AM >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: RE: Network discovery > > >Well, I have found some tools that will give me a MAC address, but from >that, how can I know that machine's IP address. There are at least 20 >machines out of the 'official' range of IP's. Some of those are User's >personal laptops configured by them to exchange information between >their machines, and play some games on the network, without using the >company's PC's. > >They seem to change the range of IP's they use for that once in a while, >and that's why I'm asked to find out a tool that tells me ALL the IP's >being used on the network at a given time. > >Are you understanding what I need? > >Filipe Joel de Almeida >Network Consultant >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ryan Malayter >Sent: ter�a-feira, 23 de Abril de 2002 18:30 >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: RE: Network discovery > >Sniffer or a similar tool will get you a list of MAC addresses. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Filipe Joel de Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:55 PM >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: RE: Network discovery > > >Just to give you some additional info on this: > >- The network is made up of only Hubs, so there's no switch to get the >MAC addresses info from. > >- I can't know how many machines are connected to the network because >there are several 'self-implemented' "departmental networks" because >some users just decided to get a hub, and use it to connect several >machines to the main network. > >This is a crapy network, with ~100 machines, and no organization. I have >to try to solve the most critical problems, and then build a real >network step by step, but I can't start my job because the guy that pays >the bills decided that the first thing to be done is find out ALL the >machines that are connected to the network. > >I thought there could be a tool to find out what are the MAC addresses >from all the machines currently connected to a LAN, and then, from that >list of MAC addresses try to find out what's the IP of each machine. I >know there might be some machines that aren't running TCP/IP, but I'll >have to consider those as marginal cases. > >All help is welcome. > >Filipe Joel de Almeida > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Filipe Joel de >Almeida >Sent: s�bado, 20 de Abril de 2002 20:38 >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: Network discovery > >Dear network gurus, > >My boss wants me to be able to find out all the machines that are >connected to our LAN, even if they are using a different IP range than >our official one. Is there any way to achieve this? > >Thanks in advance, > >Filipe Joel de Almeida > > > > > > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > > > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%%
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