Re: macintosh machine on network
Re: macintosh machine on network
- Subject: Re: macintosh machine on network
- From: Duane Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 08:18:52 -0700
--- At Thu, 23 May 2002 18:34:12 +0530, sachin mogam wrote:
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Hi,
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In my current project, the requirement is to be able to detect the macintosh
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machines on the network. The network is mainly of PC and very few mac
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machines are connected to network. the server is MS Windows based. Any help
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in this regard is highly appreciated.
I've often wondered if Mac's respond to SNMP queries?
Is this meant to be silent detection? That is are you allowed to have
anything installed on the machines to detect them or are you supposed to
be able to detect them without any help on the clients? That seems like
a hard thing to do. To abuse an old FarSide comic strip "On the network,
no one knows you're a dog."
--- At Thu, 23 May 2002 09:57:35 -0400, Peter Sichel wrote:
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One approach might be to scan your IP subnet using ping to
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find any active hosts and then consult the ARP cache to
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find their corresponding Ethernet Hardware (MAC) addresses.
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Once you have the MAC address, you can lookup the hardware
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vendor ...
Peter's suggestion is useful and interesting, but only catches those
machines using Apple Ethernet interfaces (which is likely most if not all
of them). However, there are third party adapters that work in both
Macintoshes and PCs that you couldnt tell the difference.
...Duane Murphy
Efficient Networks, Inc.
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http://www.efficient.com/>
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