On Wednesday 25 May 2011 21:45:07 Harry Putnam 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 for around 10 yrs, always seemed handier for > things like ssh between home lan computers. > > But recently started using DHCP for wireless connections. It must be > such a popular method for some reason. > > 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? > > That is, besides something like accessing the WAP and checking the IPs > connected to it. > > Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan? > > Some kind of mapper tool?
dhcp can assign static adresses ! Thus, it's easier to manage (only the dhcp server to admin !) I am not english, thus, don't know website with such doc (in english) but you can easily find it on internet ! You have also dnsmasq that makes both dns (for lan) + dhcp (whereas commonly, this functions are split) -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc
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