On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote:
> 
> > John Jolet wrote:
> >
> >> yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses.  then you  
> >> can do nmap -P0 to find it.  ping would never find it.  It's gotta  
> >> have SOME port open.
> >>
> >
> > As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why  
> > should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet?
> >
> >
> >> Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which  
> >> one is the solaris or sunos machine...
> >>
> >
> > Sure, but that's not what he's looking for...
> >
> perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression  
> that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet,  
> but the exact ip wasn't known.

... what about arp?

Just a thought
Frank
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