DHCP access

[Marty Landman]

At 12:21 AM 2/21/2004, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote:
>Jim Pazarena disturbed my sleep to write:
> > May sound rookie, but presently I go to each box and determine it's
> > IP directly and then I "know" the IP (at least for this session).

What I end up doing is browing the hosts file on my gateway machine.

>run "arp -an"

This didn't give very satisfactory results for my fbsd box e.g.

%arp -an
? (192.168.0.1) at 00:08:74:c0:5e:69 on ep0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.0.240) at 00:a0:cc:40:55:cf on ep0 [ethernet]
%ping penguin
PING penguin (192.168.0.160): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.160: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.536 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.160: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.691 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.160: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.673 ms
^C
--- penguin ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.673/0.967/1.536/0.403 ms
%arp -an
? (192.168.0.1) at 00:08:74:c0:5e:69 on ep0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.0.160) at 00:a0:24:75:04:49 on ep0 [ethernet]
? (192.168.0.240) at 00:a0:cc:40:55:cf on ep0 [ethernet]
%

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?


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