Discover your neighboring machines

January 10th, 2008 mysurface

Is there any tools that allow me to discover my neighboring machines that hook up to the same LAN switch like mine? The simplest way I can do is use ping, I can send a broadcast packet to everyone in a subnet, so that they can response back. Let say I am in subnet of […]

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Hustle! Ad Hoc Wireless connections from Linux to Windows

February 4th, 2007 mysurface

Hustle! To setup an Ad Hoc wireless connection between windows and Linux, it spend me half an hour of trying just because desperately wanna get Internet access. I decided to write down because the steps are confusing. Bare in mind the steps shown bellow just work on the case that I gonna illustrate later and […]

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configure multiple IP for a same network interface

October 15th, 2006 mysurface

To configure an IP for network interface eth0, do this ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.88 netmask 255.255.255.0 up How about I need another one? For linux, you can do IP alias by given an additional name for network interface by adding : and a number start from 1, such as eth0:1 eth0:2 eth0:3 Therefore configure a second […]

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