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

2011-05-29 Thread Harry Putnam
James writes: > Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes: > > >> Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan? > > emerge 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 newsguy.com> writes: > Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan? emerge 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 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 Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards 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. Then hostnames

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

2011-05-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-25, 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 1