Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 18:07:41 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (HMG coA reductase) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP addresses Message-ID: <199605010837.SAA24378@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960501172815.21045C-100000@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> from "HMG coA reductase" at May 1, 96 05:30:48 pm
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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. Huh? Maybe it's the beers that have done it (to all that give a damn, the customers gave the hardware a 100% thumbs up, including the cluster of FreeBSD machines running the radar and processing the test data - we even made half a dozen photocopies of the FreeBSD CDrom covers 8), but I can't work this out out. 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). 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. For (2), try 'ifconfig -au' for a list of all of the interfaces that are up on the system. > Ivan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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