From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 13:11:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jerry.globaldsl.com (jerry.globaldsl.com [63.211.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB19614A1B for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:10:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbehrens@globaldsl.com) Received: from localhost (mbehrens@localhost) by jerry.globaldsl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA31315 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:09:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:09:57 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting ARP replies on a connected network w/o having IP configured? Message-ID: X-Plea-For-Assistance: To all intelligent life in the universe: please save us from Windows NT! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a laptop that frequently moves from network to network and I'd like it to intelligently configure itself based on MAC addresses of other hosts it sees on the local LAN segment; essentially "fingerprinting" the LAN it's on. Obviously this gets done as root. :-) Is there some function that I can use, or maybe some shell command? (Just executing "arp -a" with an unconfigured interface either returns nothing or hangs.) Or maybe there's a better way of fingerprinting? (DHCP is not possible, btw.) Matt Behrens System Engineer, Global DSL Communications To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message