If you are going to go all "tool"y, there is nmap. :-)

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 10:34 Steve Dum <[email protected]> wrote:

> I always found Angry IP Scanner https://angryip.org
> A convenient java based tool to scan the local network. I reports the IP
> addresses, Hostname, Mac Address and even MAC Vendor.  (as well as other
> things, all configurable from a tools menu).
> Much quicker than manual pinging. It launches lots of threads (mine is
> configured for 100) and gets all results of scanning a /24 net (256
> addresses to analyze) in 4 or 5 seconds.
>
> It won't help determining why the router isn't responding, but if it is
> responding it might provide data if it suddenly decided to respond to a
> different address, other than the presumed static address.
> steve
>
> Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Russell Senior wrote:
> >
> >> Have you tried power cycling it?
> >
> > Russell,
> >
> > Yes. This makes no difference. And I should have written that my friend
> > connects through this WAP from her laptop daily with no issues. It's
> > working
> > as the wireless connection between her laptop and the router/outside
> > world.
> >
> >> Do you know the MAC address (probably printed on the case)?
> >
> > There are two:
> >
> > LANWLAN MAC: 08863B51998A
> > WAN MAC: 0886B51998C
> >
> >> Check the DHCP leases on your gateway router for that MAC address.
> >
> > All IP addresses on the LAN are static
> >
> >> Try pinging all the addresses. I assume there are only 253
> >> possibilities,
> >> so that's easy to script.
> >
> > Cannot ping the MAC addresses from the shell.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich
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