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[Janina Sajka]

Check the man page for nmap. There are other tricks for smoking out the
Windows machines.

Steve Holmes writes:
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> That's too bad since I have 4 of the bloody bastards on my network
> (they're for my wife and kids who haven't warmed up to Linux yet).
> That does seem to match my observations though; if I ping with
> something like ping -c2 or -c3 I may also hear from my other linux box
> and my Netgear wireless access point.  But yea, the windows boxes
> never seem to show up and they are the ones I want to verify -
> especially the wireless connected ones.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > As far as I know, windows machines don't seem to respond when you ping the broadcast address, only gnu/linux boxes respond, go figure.
> > 
> > Greg
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

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