Nick Rout wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:38 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote:
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>
>That was the answer given in an alomst identical problem recently on
>this list (or was it another??)
>
>arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's
>cache period.
>
>if there is no network activity, there may be no arp entry.
>
>
>
>>Just a thought
>>Frank
>>
>>
ping broadcast ?
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