On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:40:01PM -0400, Judah Milgram wrote: > Thanks Ben. This is worth trying just for the education. However, I don't > even have an old /etc/hosts that lists the machine's IP. I'd have to try a > range... easy to shell script I guess. Other problem: now that I see it > has two NIC cards, I don't even remember which one the system is listening > to (to plug the cable in). For the time it'd take to figur it out I > could just go find a monitor and be done with it.
If you don't remember the IP, just plug it in to the network, and tcpdump the traffic. Look for weird arp messages, and that will tell you the machine's IP. - Rob .
