Solved how to find other machines on a switch

[big_girl]

hi all,

sorry if this is a dumb-ass post, but i've been unable to find a way via net searches or by my own failed attempts to find other machines on a simple dlink 8port gigabit ethernet switch. the machines can get online properly so the NIC and switch are running ok (the machines on the switch are running freebsd 8.0 or fedora 12 linux). the switch will not be connected to anything other than these machines (i.e. no internet access) and all i hope to do is transfer files between them via rsync or scp. in the past i've used scp and rsync successfully on a group of opensuse 11.1 machines connected to an ethernet switch; those machines saw each other as '1.1.1.N' where N was each machine. copying files between them was easy as

scp -pr [email='big_girl@1.1.1.5]'big_girl@1.1.1.5[/email]:/home/big_girl/files.to.copy' .

but i have been unable to even locate the machines on this 8port dlink switch..

any general advice would be really appreciated.

-bg

 

[graudeejs]

security/nmap nmap(1), you can try to scan ports and IP with nmap
You can check other machines how they are configured, perhaps wrong ip/ firewall blocking everything etc.

 

[SirDice]

The switch works on layer 2 so there's nothing for the switch to connect to. In short, forget the switch exists, it's not part of your problem.

Check your IP address and subnet mask. These should be in the same network range as the other machines.

 

[big_girl]

ah, thanks for this.. turned out a simple 'ifconfig' did the trick.. instead of the '1.1.1.' prefix it was '192.168.1.' since yes, the switch is apparently transparent and the addresses are assigned by the router.

thanks again,
-bg