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From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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Subject: Re: An intersting question ....
To: jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za (Jacques Hugo)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:33:51 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <34C82B7C.2781E494@wired.ctech.ac.za> from "Jacques Hugo" at Jan 23, 98 07:32:44 am
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+-----[ Jacques Hugo ]------------------------------
| 
| How would you:
| 1) know what to set your ip to (you have no idea of what
|    segment you are plugged into.)

Ask someone d8)

| 2) configure your gateway?
| 
| Is there a way one can configure his network blindly,
| maybe some tools to do a dump getting IPX/IP info?

Follow a cable back out of the hub until you find a machine you can get
the IP from? Or unplug cables at random and wait for someone to phone
the machine room, and ask them their IP then d8)

Promiscuous mode on the ether device might also yield some clues.

I tend to take low-tech solutions to these types of problems, because
they nearly always work.

If there is a hub there, and you're supposed to have access to it, someone
has to know what the ranges are, and will tell you.

If they have 'outsourced' their networking and there's noone there to talk
to you should be able to get the phone number.

If none of these are true... change jobs d8)

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