On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Saravanan S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?
>>

>> > 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.

>From what I recall, the wake on lan utility "wol" requires MAC address.

Please post your solution when you find it.

-- Arun Khan
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