Re: Can't find ip addresses of devices on LAN

[Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de>]

Thomas George, Fr 01 Sep 2017 18:28:05 CEST:

> I have tried ping 192.168.1.225 followed by arp -a

Really .225 and not .255? If so, why?

> and I have tried netstat -r
> 
> Neither report ip addresses of attached devices.
>
> I know there are two devices besides this pc and I know the address of 
> one of these devices. I can ping it and it responds.
> 
> How to find the address of the second device other than ping each 
> address from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.255?

If you want to do a broadcast ping on the 192.168.1.0/24 network, issue
ping -b 192.168.1.255

Alternatively, you could use something like nmap.

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Regards
  mks