How to get "fresh" sun to recognize internet #'s of neighbors?
Daniel Smith
daniel at bermuda.island.com
Wed Feb 20 06:22:00 AEST 1991
1) You set up a Sun with a new OS, say, 4.1.1
2) You have an ethernet adapter all hooked up, so your Sun is physically
on the network
3) Now, does anyone know of a way where the new Sun could "grab" internet
numbers (192.9.205.40, etc) of one of its neighbors? Could etherfind
possibly help?
The reason I ask is: I'm going to be teaching others how to configure
some turnkey systems, and if I can put something into a shell script that
could go out and ftp/somehow get the /etc/host file from another machine
on a local network, then that would be one less question that I would have
to ask a user of the script ("what's the internet address of a another
machine on the network?"). Thanks for any leads!
[[Ed's Note: Assuming you have a host that's active on the network, you
could watch the arp cache of the Sun (ie: arp -a) and get the IP number
from there. -bdg]]
Daniel
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