On 20 October 2010 11:08, Cornelius Mostert <corneliusmost...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hi > > The scenario is as follow: > > 1. You have permission to work as Admin on a Lan > > 2. You do NOT have any documentation from the previous Admin > > 3. You find a router / WiFi Router that is in use and therefore you can > NOT reset it > > 4.v This router is a "home" / consumer router like Netgear, Linksys, etc. > So not an enterprise router > > > 5. You need to brows to the routers config web page to make some changes > (you assume the default admin and password for the router) BUT you do NOT > know > the IP address > > 6. You know the router is NOT a DHCP server > > > > Now the question is HOW do you find the IP address of the router ??? > > _______ - ____ - ______________ > > Thanx all for the response > If it was the only router / WiFi then it would have been easy but there are > multiple routers / WiFi access points AND a firewall router (this one is > sorted) but the others I have to check and make sure there are no IP > conflicts, change the PSK and so on and so on. > > I will look into Kismet, (know about wire shark), nmap, netstat... > > I also found: > nagios - http://wiki.contribs.org/Nagios > OCS - http://wiki.contribs.org/OCS_Inventory_Tools > > I know these come into the SME server project but do any of you know about > these?? > > thanx > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I use Nagios at work on a CentOS install, the company I work for use SME ( God it's horrible ) but it's also based on CentOS so you can work your way round it. Feel free to fire questions at me, guys in #nagios on Freenode are very helpful I've found as well. Looked at OCS but not used it in anger yet I'm afraid. Cheers Andy
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