Re: How to Enumerate LAN for machines
Re: How to Enumerate LAN for machines
- Subject: Re: How to Enumerate LAN for machines
- From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:27:27 +0200
Hi Ramesh,
I'm not a network programming expert but I can try to help you ask a
better question:
Am 30.05.2005 um 17:59 schrieb Ramesh Kumar Rathour <email@hidden>:
Hi All,
I want to enumerate all the MAC machines in the network, How can I do
this??
I am very new to MAC Network Programming..
"MAC" is an acronym which stands for "Media Access Control", see
<http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MAC_address.html> for example. If you
want to enumerate all MAC addresses on a network you would probably use
the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol, RFC 826) and its caches to do so.
It's likely though that you meant "Mac", short for "Macintosh". In that
case you need to define this further:
- Do you need to identify any Apple Macintosh hardware, regadless of
the operating system used? (Could be Mac OS 9 or lower, Mac OS X or
even Linux.)
- Do you need to identify computers running Mac OS 9 and earlier?
- Do you need to identify computers running Mac OS X?
- Do you need to identify computers running the Darwin kernel (even on
x86)?
- What do you mean by "network"? An IP based LAN? An AppleTalk network?
Something else? Are routers or switches involved?
- Are you really trying to find Macintosh machines or rather some
service running in the LAN? Just knowing a certain machine is running
some form of Mac OS seems rather pointless generally.
It might be best if you described why you need to identify all the "MAC
machines in the network". Then someone might be able to point you to an
appropriate solution.
HTH
Mike
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