Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > address of the machine? I've forgotten what it is and it's also headless > with no keyboard. Is there a utilitiy in portage that will try all of > the ip addresses in a range and let me know if something it at the other > end, ie something like automatically pinging all of the addresses in a > range and reporting what addresses responded? > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > Andrew
If it reply to broadcast query this can give an answer: #ping -b -c1 192.168.0.255 well, many answer, exclude the known ip and try the remaining ones. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
