Re: How to find network computers
Re: How to find network computers
- Subject: Re: How to find network computers
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:08:47 -0500
On 10/15/04 11:59 AM, "John W. Baxter" <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).
Good point...more devices are squashing pings as a way of staying
undiscovered by crackers.
john
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