new wrt54g user questions

[R. G. Newbury]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:33 -0600, Tom Poe wrote:
 > > What is the command that will list all the devices on the network?

 > /sbin/ifconfig

No, that will only show you the interfaces on your own computer.

Any computers on your network which use DHCP from the router will be 
shown in the admin or status pages of the router, using 
http://192.168.0.1 in a browser to get to the router's admin functions.

The DDWRT replacement BIOS for the WRT54G gives more information than 
the original linksys BIOS, but you *can* brick your linksys doing the 
upgrade...

Neither version of the BIOS will show you any computers which are 
connected with wired static IP addresses. Wireless static IP addresses 
will only show up under the wireless section. The DDWRT BIOS allows you 
to reserve an IP address for a particular hardware MAC, so your wireless 
connected laptop will always show up at the same IP.


To see ALL of the boxes on your network, use:

arp -e

This will report all wired and wireless boxes which your machine can 'see'.

Geoff



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