Re: Discover machines on local network

Hi there,

dk wrote:
ray wrote:

ping -b

I'm running Suse 10.1 and that didn't work.


BTW ifconfig does not usually require root access to report the ip
address.

On this box you need root access to run ifconfig at all. I assume, then,
that not true for all distros?

It lives in /sbin, which is often not included in the path for a plain
as in Jane user, but executing /sbin/ifconfig will allow you to see the
current network interfaces and their status, IP's etc.

Attempting to use ifconfig to change routing etc *will* require you to
be root...

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