[Gllug] IP address detection

[Ian Norton]

If you dont know it's IP, then you obviously dont know its passwords, 

use a serial cable and use the sparc openboot console, then you can do an
install of somthing over text console

Ian

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:06:11PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Bought a sparc 20 for a fiver on ebay (I know, I know, but it was just five 
> quid and it would make a good web server, honest).
> 
> Box is here, powers up, hub says the ethernet connection is there - but I have 
> no monitor - so how do I detect what the IP address is so I can ssh or telnet 
> my way into it?
> 
> Also --- how do I install software on it? The strange then appears to have 
> neither an fd0 or a cdrom - though I could probably attach one via a scsi 
> port.
> 
> Adrian
> -- 
> Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
> http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug

-- 
/* www.darkspace.org.uk {
 web development, application development, consultancy, firewalls 
 */
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug