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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Finding local network connections
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:51:03 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Seagate ships their NASes with Discovery software, but that's
> only for MS-Windows, not sure about Mac.  Or maybe Mac OS X
> already has something comparable included?

At least Mac OS X should have the tools ping and arp
(in their BSD userland), and you can easily install
nmap on that platform, too. So you can use the tools
you're familiar with from FreeBSD and NetBSD in the
same manner on the Mac.


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Polytropon
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