Re: [Hampshire] [OT] How to find the IP address of something

Bob Dunlop wrote:

> 3. The old fashioned way was to issue a broadcast ping and then examine
>    the arp table for new respondies. ie.

>

>    # ping -c 1 -b 192.168.1.255
>    # arp -a

ah, but nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 will work as long as they are not
dropping normal echo-requests

I much prefer it, actually as you get no duplicate responses and it
reports MAC addresses too (so no need for the arp -a thing)

Stuart