[ale] Find IP-address from MAC address

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:46 +0200, Rene Rasmussen wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 15:04, you wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:53 +0200, Rene Rasmussen wrote:
> > > The other host is a N-port server (16 serial ports server with IP
> > > access). I need to find the IP address to configure it, but I only know
> > > the MAC address.
> >
> > Are you even sure it has an IP address?  There is a chance that it was
> > either "de-configured" or never configured in the first place.  I also
> > think it is possible that the unit could use DHCP.
> According to the manual the server is capable of using DHCP, but can also be 
> configured with a static IP address. Of course I cannot be sure how it is 
> configured at the moment.
> There is a reset button on the unit, but that only resets the password. At 
> least that's what the manual say. (I have tried it...)
> 
> > Google says that default IP address is 192.168.127.254/24, have you
> > tried that yet?
> I have tried the default address, but got no reply from the unit. 
> I made a little script utilizing nmap to scan all the addresses between 
> 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.255.255. (one network at a time of course). 
> Unfortunately I still got no reply.
> 
> As I'm not very good at making scripts yet, I had to look through all the 
> generated log files to check whether an address was found or not. Took a bit 
> of time. ;-)  
> Seriously, I don't know enough about Linux and the command line tools to make 
> any advanced scripts yet. That'll probably come along the way.

Are you 100% certain that the device even works?

-Jim P.