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
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>
>
>-----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
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>
>
>-----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
>
>
>
>
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