[ILUG] IP address from ethernet address

[McAuley, Tim]

I came across a lovely program the other day called Ethereal (runs on X)
that interprets the information from tcpdump. All you have to do is set it
to capture information from the network, while the other PC is booting up,
and then look for the ARP information as Dave said.

www.ethereal.com.

Good luck.

Tim

> 
> find a server it talks to and check its ARP tables, or do an 
> SNMP on the
> router and see what it is on... other ideas  might work 
> include broadcast
> ping... and maybe nbtstat on a PC ..
> 
> Dave.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Miles wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know how to figure out the hostname/IP address 
> of a machine
> > from its ethernet address on a solaris network? I have a 
> box here that's
> > useless to me (win2k professional, don't have any 
> passwords, guy who has
> > went to india for 2 months), and I want to use its IP address and
> > hostname on a Suse 6.4 laptop I have here. Unfortunately, 
> seeing as it's
> > win2k, I don't get the handy "welcome to <hostname>" message at the
> > login screen, and I can't get in to find out. All I have is 
> the ethernet
> > address from the back of the machine. Any ideas? I know how 
> to get the
> > ethernet address from the hostname, but not the other way around.
> >
> > 		...Miles
> >
> > kieran.colfer at ireland.sun.com