getting a client IP list?

TimSSC · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: getting a client IP list?

I've looked around for how to do this, but haven't been able to do anything. I have a home server (or router) that I set up using the gentoo home router guide. My question is, is there a way to get a list of all the IP addresses the computer is providing to the LAN? thanks.

( I want to know this so that I can easily SSH into one of the other computers. It's a laptop though, so I don't want to set up a static IP address.)

nixnut · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

Are you looking for the dhcp lease range or for the list of leases currently active?
The range is something you should find in the config file, the active leases in a file like /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases (may depend on the dhcp server application you use and its configuration).
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TimSSC · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I'm looking for the list of currently active leases. However, the file /var/lib/hdcpd/dhcpd.leases doesn't exist. I think it's because my dhcp server is dnsmasq. Sorry, I should have been more explicit.

think4urs11 · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject:

it is /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases
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ecks · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 64

from there, once you know the range, you can use nmap with the -sP option to scan a your range, it's pretty fast and tells you what computers are up.