[ale] Find IP-address from MAC address

[Rene Rasmussen]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 14:26, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:39 +0200, Rene Rasmussen wrote:
> > I have a machine and a crossover cable I'm gonna use. This negates the
> > possibility of false hits.
>
> If all you want to do is detect the one host on the otherside of the
> crossover cable (assuming the other host is already configured to some
> extent), then all you need to do is set your interface to something like
> 10.10.10.10, run tcpdump, and reboot the other host.  When the other
> host reboots it should generate some traffic that should tell you what
> it's subnet is at least.  Maybe I missed this earlier, what exactly is
> the other host? (router?)
The other host is a N-port server (16 serial ports server with IP access).
I need to find the IP address to configure it, but I only know the MAC 
address.

Regards,
Ren?