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Re: Re: Finding IP Devices on a LAN?



ha ha .... nice.

Just mentioned it with one of my tech architects... He was intrigued so
tried it there & then.
It seemed to work so well he fired up wireshark to watch the ping
packets....
... to find it seems to have triggered the enterprise switch he was
connected to to re-arp all its active arp table entries :-)
..... good job it was after hours !!!


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Paul Bendall <paul@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>   Ping the broadcast address i.e 192.168.1.255
>
> then arp -a to see what MAC addresses have been discovered and the
> associated IP address.
>
> This usually works on a simple network just fine
>
> HTH
>
> Paul
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>, "Mark
McCall"
> <lists@...> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone got a good little app or command line (PC and/or Mac) for
> scanning a
> > LAN to find all the IP devices on it?
> >
> > M.
> >
>
>
>



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