Hi, On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Raja Subramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Saravanan S <[email protected]> > wrote: > > How to discover the mac address of machines in a network? > > For machines which have an OS installed, you can use an nmap > ping sweep, or ARP request to get your local OS to learn other > MAC IDs. > Yes i would discover these from a machine which has a Linux OS. > > I need to discover the machines that are available just with only BIOS > > installed (NO Operating System) > > > > And I need to find the mac address of such machines that are up. > > Unless a machine starts transmitting any data on the network, > you can't find any information about it. > > If your BIOS attempts PXE boot, you can capture the MAC ID > from the DHCP broadcast request. Or if you have a managed > L2 switch, you can query its ARP table for list of all MAC IDs > it has learned. > Wake on Lan would be surely there. PXE boot needs manual/ requies agent(OS) which is not possible. PC BIOS has limited network support so you really need an OS > to do something more useful. > NO, I won't have access to the machines, I am developing a system that involves a part of Baremetal Provisioning for which i need to find the baremetal resources (with mac as identifier). Thanks -- Saravanan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
