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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
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Subject: Re: IP Addresses
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, rick hamell wrote:

> 	Is there anyway to find all IP addresses on a lan?

Four years ago, you could ping the broadcast addess and every machine
w0uld respond.  Nowadays that functionality isn't supported generally.  

This is what tools like nmap are for.  :)

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