[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-29 Thread Harry Putnam
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com writes: Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan? emerge fping man fping fping -g 192.168.222.0/24 searches quite fast and accurate... Yup, that's quick and easy... thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-27 Thread James
Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com writes: Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan? emerge fping man fping fping -g 192.168.222.0/24 searches quite fast and accurate... hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:28:04 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Just one simple command found all machines active on the home lan including those with DHCP served addresses: netdiscover -i eth0 ENTER Thanks, I wasn't aware of netdiscover and it's a perfect fit for something I needed this week.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-25, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: There must be a number of people who post here that have had to do this problem. Discover the addresses of computers on a home network that have connected by way of DHCP. For example: Several wireless connections. I've used static IPs

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: [...] But when you do it that way, and say want to VNC or ssh or the like to something connected by a dhcp serving WAP then how do you find the address? The best thing to do is to use a DHCP server and DNS server that are connected somehow.