[wplug] IP addresses
Brian
bpmedley at 4321.tv
Wed Sep 19 18:09:32 EDT 2001
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:34:12PM -0400, mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> ping your network address, and examine the arp table ('/usr/sbin/arp' or so).
>
> Your network address being your IP address bitwise ANDed to your
> netmask.
>
> Of course this won't work if the machines aren't all on and connected
> to the network.
Why does that work? I was under the impression that you should ping the
broadcast address. Can you explain what happens when you ping the
network? I'd appreciate it...
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:27:41AM -0500, Douglas Green wrote:
> > Hi-
> > Is there a way to determine what IP numbers on my network are used, and which
> > ones are available? There are a large number of us on the same subnetwork,
> > and over the years IP numbers have been lost/swapped/replaced, etc. I don't
> > need to know who has what IP- only which ones are free. Any help is
> > appreciated!
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