DHCP access

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sat Feb 21 14:04:09 PST 2004


Marty Landman wrote:
> At 12:21 AM 2/21/2004, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote:
[ ... ]
> As you can see only the gateway and one other box (5 total on my lan) 
> were cached. After pinging penguin it got into the cache but this looks 
> like arp is unreliable for a canonical list of plugged in ip's.
> 
> Curious about what would work. Nmap(8) isn't installed on my system now, 
> is this the way to go? Nothing in my base install to do it?

"nmap -sP 22 192.168.0.0/24" should do it (although nmap may pause on .0), but 
you can also try:

ping 192.168.0.255

...although not everything responds to a broadcast addr ping, but it's still 
useful.

-- 
-Chuck



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