Re: Network address finder

In article <4dcc644fd2bric-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Brian Carroll
<bric-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a RISC OS utility, or a *-command, that will show me
> the in-use IP addresses of all the computers and devices that
> are active on my LAN? (Not necessarily as listed in a hosts
> file)

> The LAN comprises (maximum) 1 x RISC OS 4.39/RiscPC, 1 x
> WindowsXP/Pentium PC, 1 x WindowsXP/laptop (connected by cable
> and/or wireless) and a new wireless access point (WAP) that
> apparently keeps changing its address. The router also has its
> own address.

Thank you all for interesting and useful comments and
suggestions made here and by email.

I seem to have got the WAP to perform as it ought /sometimes/.
On the way I have discovered that I can force it to use IP
10.0.0.6 by setting the LAN scope of the router to 10.0.0.3 -
10.0.0.6 and explicitly configuring the other items in the LAN
to 10.0.0.3, 10.0.0.4 and 10.0.0.5 .

The PAE-CE84 router gives, on its Home and LAN Status pages,
'Number of ethernet devices connected to the DHCP server: n'
followed by a table of IP and MAC addresses. /All/ devices have
usually been shown using Firefox or IE on the PC including
Fresco in VirtualRPC-Adjust, but not, oddly, using Fresco on
RiscPC/Adjust. The MAC address can be found on a hardware label
or by (eg) *EXInfo in RISC OS or WindowsXP -> Network
Connections -> Ethernet Cable (or Local Area) Connection Status
-> Support -> Details, so a positive correlation between
hardware and IP address can be made (that's how I am certain the
the WAP has set itself to 10.0.0.6).

I have now returned the WAP to the supplier for testing because
it will not reset to its defaults as it should, which means I
cannot use either the supplied (Windows) configuration software
or the internal web site to set up security passwords, nor can I
be sure what the somewhat arcane Windows wireless network
setting-up system is doing.

I can use a normal ethernet cable connection meanwhile, which is
faster and more reliable than the wireless link. The IP address
10.0.0.5 applies to this link only, and it seems that the
wireless link can happily co-exist with it.

I hope this ramble is of interest to someone :-)


Brian.

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Brian Carroll, Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK bric at f2s dot com
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