I am able to ping my windows box on the same router with: ping 192.168.0.106 and it comes back with all the needed info. I will try it with my wife's laptop when it is on the next time. It is on a wireless card. But I had to know the IP address of the windows box, so I did not try to search for unknown addresses that were there. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:52 AM Subject: Re: IP address -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB1tVJWSjv55S0LfERApgGAKCfMrcGJp9kQ6DG0wF2FDI761jbigCeN2vj C0lq246+sJ6rl2p8pI+Z7KM= =OaEm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
