Re: How to find network computers
Re: How to find network computers
- Subject: Re: How to find network computers
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:59:05 -0700
On 10/15/2004 9:39, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I mean, if you want to find EVERYTHING, ping the broadcast address and then
> search your ARP tables. But I don't know how useful that info will be.
Not very, if my vast network is typical. My Mac (10.3.5) responds to ping
on the broadcast address. Neither the Actiontec DSL modem/router nor the
laptop running Windows XP (home, SP2) does, and neither NIC appears in the
arp table after the ping attempt. (Pinging the appropriate IP does fill in
the arp entry, but if you know the address you don't need to do this
searching).
--John
ARP = Address Resolution Protocol. It's part of how machines actually
find each other at the low networking level.
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