[Gllug] IP address detection

[john.hearns at clustervision.com]

Quoting Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>:

> 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?

Don't Sparcs run a serial console by default if there is no keyboard?



Other answer would be to ping the broadcast address of popular network ranges
and look at your arp table.

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