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Special Forums IP Networking How to find the IP address of a computer that I am connected to? Post 302386787 by ceubank on Wednesday 13th of January 2010 02:13:24 PM

01-13-2010

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Amazing! I hope you get it back.

Once you know what the IP address is by the command above, you could also run 'tracert'(windows) or 'traceroute'(unix/linux) from the PC you are connecting from to try and help the law enforcement officials locate the device.

It will also be helpful to give them the MAC address of your laptop, as this information can sometimes be critical. (looks like this 00:00:00:00:00:00, should be in the ifconfig -a output..)

If you can get a shell on this MAC laptop, it might also be worthwhile to put something in a startup script somewhere after the network is connected to e-mail you this information. At least that way whenever they turn it on, you get an e-mail containing this data. Not sure where this would be on a macintosh though. (perhaps /etc/rc3.d..?)

Good luck!

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hp-search-mac

HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)

NAME

       hp-search-mac  -- HP switch search tool.

DESCRIPTION

	HP-search-MAC is an util that can query HP switches for their
	connection table. It then allow you to search for a MAC address and tell you
	where it is physically connected (best match first).
	.
	The functionality is similar to traceroute but on Ethernet level and only
	for HP switches.

USAGE

       hp-search-mac [options] [MAC] [...]

OPTIONS

       hp-search-mac [options] mac [ [options] mac ] [...]

       options:
	 --dl n 	  Set debug level to n.
	 --help 	  Print this help.
	 --hostname host[=>community] | -h host[=>community]	       Set a switch name to search. You can also set this in
		       /etc/hp-search-mac.conf or ~/.hp-search-mac.conf.	    The hash to set is \%switches.

       Mac:
	 You can use some different formats:	  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (hex)      ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff (hex)

	       0.123.0.12.0.12.0 (dec)

       CONFIGURATION:

       \%switches:	This is a normal perl hash of the form	    \%switches = ("host" => "community", ...);

AUTHOR

       Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>

SEE ALSO

       snmp-walk(1) snmp-get(1)

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