[Gllug] unknown ip of netgear printer server

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Jason Lambert wrote:

>Normally these things have a "reset" pin, which
>restores everything back to factory default settings.
>You could try this, the default IP it resets to should
>be in the manual.
>
>Alternativly.. There may be no "easy" way to do it,
>but this is one that would work with some effort:
>1) Plug PC & printer into same hub.
>2) Configure the PC for an 192.168.0.* IP
>3) nmap -sP 192.168.0.*
>4) Configure the PC for an 192.168.1.* IP
>5) nmap -sP 192.168.0.*

A better solution would be a broadcast ping.

Ping the IP address 255.255.255.255, and hopefully the printer will 
respond with it's IP address.

You may need to tcpdump the network, however, as your PC may not get the 
response due to routing issues.

>
>That *should* find it if its not too obscure. You
>could try a few other ranges as well (or write a
>script to do it.
>
>Jason
>
>
>
> --- Ian Norton <bredroll at darkspace.org.uk> wrote: >
>Hi everyone
>> 
>> we just recieved a netgear ps113 printer server from
>> ebay, it kind of seems
>> happy, it lights up, rx blinks when you push packets
>> at it over a crossover or
>> hub etc.
>> 
>> however,
>> 
>> it does seem, that either it is totally useless and
>> infact is dead, or that its
>> previous owner has set it's IP to some really
>> obscure one.
>> 
>> the unit has also had its identification sticker
>> removed :-/ (some idiots in
>> the world) which means we dont know the mac.
>> 
>> any ideas for finding its ip? or its mac?
>> 
>> Ian
>
>
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