On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 05:50 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Frank Schafer wrote: > > > > > ... what about arp? > > > > If this machine has the mac address listed on the outside of the > case, or he opens it up to look at the card, sure. if you don't know > what the mac address is....then you're stuck.
Not necessarily. If the machine has had network activity it may be shown by arp -e. If you have a smallish network and can identify the other machines, its a matter of elimination. i.e. you look at the list of IP addresses shown by arp -en and eliminate the ones you know. > Of course, if it's a > small, home network, you could always just turn off all the other > computers except that one and the one you're on and ask the router > who's connected. be quicker just to launch nmap and go get some coffee. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
