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How to find devices on your local network
If it doesn't respond to ping, you can still find the address like so: x=0 while [ $x < 255 ]; do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$x & x=$(expr $x + 1) done # Wait a few seconds for the pings above to finish arp -a This will ping every address in your subnet (Adjust the local address as needed, and if your block is larger than a /24 you'll have to modify the script accordingly) and then show every machine that responded to the arp request. Even if it doesn't respond to a ping, it'll respond to the arp request. The ping is just used to generate the arp request. I've used this to locate APs that blocked pings by default.
How to find devices on your local network
Pardon my stupidity, but when I type that straight into terminal, I get "-bash:
How to find devices on your local network
Whoops. I make a mistake in my original post. |
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