[ILUG] IP address from ethernet address

[John P . Looney]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:34:37PM -0000, Scanlan, Brian (5188) mentioned:
> Else... 
> echo 0 | nc 255.255.255.255 6   
> Does Win2k echo echo requests - tcpdump the network at this time...

 Windows doesn't reply to broadcast pings, at all it seems. You are much
better using nmblookup to make it talk to you...

Kate


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