On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 17:26, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > Many gateway boxes, assume you mean either a router or a linux box
> > acting as a gateway/DHCP server, will allow you to specify a specific IP
> > address to assign to specified MAC addresses. Set it to give your
> > laptop the same IP address anytime it requests via DHCP an IP address
> > and you know what it will be.
>
> Mine doesn't. Thus the question.
Where are you when you need to know? If you're on the local network
you could do a 'ping -b xxx.xxx.xxx.255 where the xx's are your
local network address and then an 'arp -a' to see the mac/IP
relationships. Or perhaps 'nmblookup netbios_name' to use the
windows lookup mechanism. If you are on the other side of the
router, this becomes a lot harder.
--
Les Mikesell
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