"Scooby" <mmscooby1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Walter Roberson" <roberson@hushmail.com> wrote in message
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>> In article <58C7E636-CEE6-416F-8A1C-E1A9FB2CA0B5%edv@zschocke-berlin.de>,
>> Florian Zschocke <edv@zschocke-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>a perhaps silly question. If I have two machines connected with a
>>>crossover-cable, both running tcp, but I only have access to one of
>>>them. How can I get the static IP-Address of the other machine?
>>
>> In the general case, you cannot. For one thing, it might not have
>> a static IP address. For another, there is no way to force a computer
>> to respond if it has been configured to block you.
>>
>> You could -try- firing off an icmp echo packet to 255.255.255.255
>> but don't be surprised if nothing answers.
>
> Check the arp table (arp -a). Even if you don't get responses to ping or
> other services, you may still get arp entries.
>

Oh yea, and if you have a packet sniffer, you can watch for broadcasts from
teh other system which will tell you what the ip of the machine is.