Scan an IP range on my network

I am no expert here - but generally when I get a device in that needs 'finding', I put one of my machines on DHCP and then see what address I get given, Most DHCP servers wil hand out IP addresses in sequence so I try pinging a few either side.

If I dont get a hit then I fire up a linux lve disk and use its 'ping -b 255.255.255.255' command to broadcast a ping. As long as the device responds to this kind of ping; the output will show all iPs on the network that have answered the broadcast.

I am sure there are utils to do this, but I have never needed to go beyond the linux method.

hope this helps a little bit.

EDIT: a quick google turns up this - 'ping x.y.z.255' where x.y.z is the network range. Eg my network is on the 10.10.10.x range (every machine has an index replacing 'x'. That command will do the broadcast style ping I just mentioned. Only four machines on my network reply to this method (but one of them is my NAS so there is hope)

 

Install fink and then install nmap.

Use nmap to scan the subnet and return any responses.

 

Do you know the host name of your NAS? If so try this in terminal:

host <yourNAShostname>

This will display the ip of the host. For example:

host myNAS.local

will display something like this

myNAS.local has address 192.168.1.34

 

You can set your router to provide the nas as a dhcp client but still manually configure an IP address.

In your routers config, you should be able to set the NAS's IP address manually. It will still be dhcp, i.e. it will still get its ip from the router, but the router will recognize the NAS by its MAC address and assign it the same IP every time.

I do this all the time. All my clients are standard dhcp. 192.168.0.2 +1, +1, etc.

All my devices that provide services: NAS, Music server, network printers, managable switches, etc all are manually assigned, dhcp devices counting down from 192.168.0.250.

So everything on the high end is fixed and everything on the low end is dynamic.

by the way, the mac address of the nas is physically on the device, usually a sticker. If you PM me I can send you a screen shot of the router screens.