[CALUG] Network discovery

[Peter Yasuda]

Sounds like you're trying to do RFC 2462, Stateless Autoconfiguration? Or 
is there something more to it?

py

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Jason C. Miller wrote:

> Hey again folks.  I'm looking to develop a method for some of our systems at
> work to do autonomous network discovery and IP assignment but without the
> use of a bootp/rarp server.
>
> Here's the scenario....
> 1. Boot machine
> 2. Machine asks if you'd like to manually assign IP or have it find out what
> network its neighbors are using and available addresses for that network
>
> Does anybody know of any nifty tools that might aid in this endevor?  I'm in
> the process of jury-rigging something together but it's hardly robust.
> There's only so far that one can go with tcpdump/nmap/ping.  :)
>
>
> -jason
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