[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[Daniel Andersson]

> > I've got two ethernet (10Mb) switches which I've just excavated from my
> loft.
> > Unfortunately I have no idea what their admin IP addresses are!
> >
> > Is there an 'easy' way to find out? Or is it a case of plugging them up
to
> a
> > box and having a script ping every possible address (lots, of course
since
> > they could be on 192.168.0.0 or 10.0.0.0)?
>
> yes
> nmap
> www.insecure.org/nmap/
>
> use: nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24

yes, replying to own post = bad

but i just realised i didn't read the whole post ;oP

you can only scan ips on the same network as you're on, unless you have a
gateway to the other networks

so for every scan, you have to change the ip of the box that scans

/ d


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