Joel Hammer wrote:
<snip>
> Hmmm..
> arp -n on my router shows me all the hosts on my two subnets.
> Can I conclude that in a network with two subnets and with windows clients who are
>sharing,
> the router will always shows the ip's of all the machines?
> This seems just too easy. I have spent many hours trying to figure out how
> to reliably find all the netbios clients on my two small home networks
> so linux clients can mount them.
> The other way was with a wins server, which works, but can be a nuisance.
> This looks like the really easy way.
> Joel
> _______________________________________________
Your arp table should show devices with a direct connection to it, but
not beyond. So if all your machines have a connection to the router then
yes, the router should show all, regardless of the subnet. If machine A
had to connect through the router to machine B, the router would
receieve the arp broadcast and not forward it to anything else, thus
machine A would never populate machine B's arp table.
HTH,
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Andrew Mathews
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