On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > > John Jolet wrote: > > > >> yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you > >> can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta > >> have SOME port open. > >> > > > > As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why > > should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet? > > > > > >> Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which > >> one is the solaris or sunos machine... > >> > > > > Sure, but that's not what he's looking for... > > > perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression > that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet, > but the exact ip wasn't known.
... what about arp? Just a thought Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
