how to get a network's IPs?

From: TW (tuxwins_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/29/05 

Date: 29 Apr 2005 10:18:07 -0700

Hi,

I have been recently to a install fest in a local college in a room
with network connections on each table. Some of the participants
connected their laptops to the network and in less than 5 minutes they
had the IP numbers, s-mask, GW to use the network. How did they do
that?

I tired repeating this at a local library with Knoppix live-CD but I
could see not network traffic before configuring my netcard and for
that, I needed an IP which, I could only get by knowing which IPs the
network used.

What did these guys use? Tcpdump? Ethereal? Some other ap?

Thanks,

TW

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