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 > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
