Finding local network connections

[Thomas Mueller]

from Peter Boosten:

> Netstat will only should info about machines connected to the machine you're
> running netstat from.

> You could ping your subnet, and immediately after it perform a 'arp -a', to
> show mac-addresses.

> Nmap (ports) lets you perform a network scan (including guessed OS-info).

Thanks for hints, now I have something to try for both FreeBSD and NetBSD.

Seagate ships their NASes with Discovery software, but that's only for MS-Windows, not sure about Mac.  Or maybe Mac OS X already has something comparable included?

Tom