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[ale] Find IP-address from MAC address
- Subject: [ale] Find IP-address from MAC address
- From: ale at ras-world.dk (Rene Rasmussen)
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:53:34 +0200
- In-reply-to: <1125577572.9713.3.camel@localhost>
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <1125577572.9713.3.camel@localhost>
On Thursday 01 September 2005 14:26, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:39 +0200, Rene Rasmussen wrote:
> > I have a machine and a crossover cable I'm gonna use. This negates the
> > possibility of false hits.
>
> If all you want to do is detect the one host on the otherside of the
> crossover cable (assuming the other host is already configured to some
> extent), then all you need to do is set your interface to something like
> 10.10.10.10, run tcpdump, and reboot the other host. When the other
> host reboots it should generate some traffic that should tell you what
> it's subnet is at least. Maybe I missed this earlier, what exactly is
> the other host? (router?)
The other host is a N-port server (16 serial ports server with IP access).
I need to find the IP address to configure it, but I only know the MAC
address.
Regards,
Ren?