From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 02:28:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA26382 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 02:28:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU [128.250.6.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA26377 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 02:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from s_koyin@localhost) by eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (8.7.4/8.7.3) id TAA08060; Wed, 1 May 1996 19:28:09 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 19:28:08 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase To: Michael Smith cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP addresses In-Reply-To: <199605010837.SAA24378@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > HMG coA reductase stands accused of saying: > > > > If i don't know the IP address of this machine, but know everything else > > (DNS, gateway, etc), is it possible to find out by some means what my IP > > is? I'm on an Ethernet. BOOTP doesn't work. [snip] > > Either : You have a machine coming up and you want to work out what address > it should have (1), or you're on a machine and you want to find its IP (2). yes. i'm on this machine that hasn't got DOS software and hence i cannot know its IP. is there a way to check up an IP according to its ethernet addr or whatever means? > > For (1), BOOTP will only work if you have a server previously > configured for it on the network. Assuming this is met, then BOOTP > certainly _does_ work. What if there's this other server on another LAN that does BOOTP nicely for Novell netware, will it serve BOOTP for my FreeBSD box on that LAN?