Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Matthew, On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:15:40AM +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 00:32 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:12:14PM +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > > > I think that's actually no longer a serious issue, as NetworkManager now > >

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/17/2014 09:14 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to find all my computers on my home network (ip addresses are > assigned using DHCP, can't change that). So far these are my attempts: you could try like this: ip neigh flush dev ping -b ip neigh HTH, Adrian smime.p7s Descript

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/19/2014 06:27 AM, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: On 17 January 2014 20:14, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi, [...] $ nmap -sn 192.168.1.65-150 If you have GNU parallel instead then you can do it in a few seconds: seq 65 150 | parallel -j0 ping -c1 192.168.1.{} | grep "64 bytes" Wi

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen
On 17 January 2014 20:14, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, [...] > $ nmap -sn 192.168.1.65-150 If you have GNU parallel instead then you can do it in a few seconds: seq 65 150 | parallel -j0 ping -c1 192.168.1.{} | grep "64 bytes" Without GNU parallel you can do this: for f in {65..150} do (ping

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 00:32 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi Tim, Matthew, others, > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:12:14PM +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 20:42 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Jan

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/19/2014 03:52 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 19 January 2014, Suvayu Ali sent: I had forgotten about this possibility. This works nicely for wireless using SSIDs, is it possible to do this for wired connections? After all they do not have something similar to SSID to serve as iden

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 January 2014, Suvayu Ali sent: > I had forgotten about this possibility. This works nicely for > wireless using SSIDs, is it possible to do this for wired connections? > After all they do not have something similar to SSID to serve as > identifier. There's MAC addresses

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/19/2014 03:03 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:20:06 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Double nating may result in strange behaviour, depending on the application. This should be avoided. But sometimes cannot be avoided. I use a router inside my isp router, as it (isp) is n

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-19 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:20:06 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Double nating may result in strange behaviour, depending on the > application. This should be avoided. > But sometimes cannot be avoided. I use a router inside my isp router, as it (isp) is not enough control, and they can reset it

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/17/2014 02:54 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:42:17 +0100 Suvayu Ali wrote: My landlord owns the router. You could connect another router to it and run all your stuff on a different subnet with a helpful router. Double nating may result in strange behaviour, depending on

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/17/2014 02:42 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:14:29 +0100 Suvayu Ali wrote: Can someone point me in the right direction? Get a better router that supports DNS as well as DHCP? My landlord owns the router. I thi

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/17/2014 02:14 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find all my computers on my home network (ip addresses are assigned using DHCP, can't change that). So far these are my attempts: $ ip neigh | grep REACHABLE | grep But this seems rather unrealiable. Often the reported addresse

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-18 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:42:17 +0100 Suvayu Ali wrote: > My landlord owns the router. Another level I know, but can you put a router of your own, between the landlords router, and your home net. At least then you control what you see on yours. ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users m

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Tim, Matthew, others, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:12:14PM +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 20:42 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:14:29 +0100 > > > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > > > > Can so

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 January 2014, Suvayu Ali sent: > I can't setup my computers to use fixed ip as they are portables and > leave the house. Theoretically, you can. You're in the realms of customising something like NetworkManager, here. Which some people have no troubles with, while othe

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 20:42 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:14:29 +0100 > > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > > > > Get a better router that supports DNS as well as DHCP? >

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:42:17 +0100 Suvayu Ali wrote: > My landlord owns the router. You could connect another router to it and run all your stuff on a different subnet with a helpful router. > I was under the impression all the ip commands were supposed to be > replacements for arp, am I wrong?

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 01:26:40PM -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > On 01/17/2014 01:14 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > I'm trying to find all my computers on my home network (ip addresses are > > assigned using DHCP, can't change that). So far these are my attempts: > > > > $ ip neigh | grep REACHA

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:14:29 +0100 > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > > Get a better router that supports DNS as well as DHCP? My landlord owns the router. I think the easiest setup for me would

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:14:29 +0100 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Can someone point me in the right direction? Get a better router that supports DNS as well as DHCP? Get a better router that allows configuration of permanent mac <-> ipaddr mapping so you can just put the names in a hosts file? I've got a

Re: Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/17/2014 01:14 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to find all my computers on my home network (ip addresses are > assigned using DHCP, can't change that). So far these are my attempts: > > $ ip neigh | grep REACHABLE | grep > > But this seems rather unrealiable. Often the repor

Finding neighbours on my LAN

2014-01-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I'm trying to find all my computers on my home network (ip addresses are assigned using DHCP, can't change that). So far these are my attempts: $ ip neigh | grep REACHABLE | grep But this seems rather unrealiable. Often the reported addresses are not up to date (e.g. offline devices sti