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Is it has another name, such as ipconfig to ifconfig? In macOS Terminal, you can use traceroute for similar functionality. Just a heads up for the OP, tracert does not measure packet loss over time like pathping does. For example, in BASH Christopher Christopher 6 You can also use the Terminal too. David Fass David Fass 1 4.

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Email Required, but never shown. Lost your password? Powered by the Parse. More Mac Sites: Macworld MacUser iPhone Central. How to find devices on your local network May 30, '06 Experienced Unix users, look away now, please -- the following is a very simple hint. Over the weekend, I "lost track" of a device on my network.

We've got a wireless video camera, but I've had it unplugged for a very long time. I plugged it in this weekend, but couldn't even begin to remember what IP address I'd assigned to it. So I wanted a simple way to just poll my network and see what was out there, which would let me find the camera by process of elimination. Some versions of the ping command support the -b broadcast flag, which will send a ping request to any device capable of receiving such requests on your network, and report back with the addresses of those that replied.

Unfortunately, Mac OS X's version of ping doesn't seem support the flag -- it doesn't work if you try to use it, and it's not listed in the man page.

Just as I was about to go find and build a new ping , a much more Unix savvy friend of mine offered this alternative: So our ping does support broadcast pings, by placing the value in the field you wish to vary -- the last field of the IP address for a typical home network. Of course, once I had the list, I then had to figure out what was what, but that was relatively trivial. See, I told you it was a simple hint.

And yet, in all my years of OS X usage, I had no idea you could do such a thing. So perhaps this will help some other relatively inexperienced Unix user out there How to find devices on your local network 21 comments Create New Account. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.

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This site is not responsible for what they say. How to send a find devices on your local network Authored by: How to find devices on your local network Authored by: Jeff [ Reply to This ]. If it doesn't respond to ping, you can still find the address like so: I've used this to locate APs that blocked pings by default. Many thanks!

X11 on May 30, '06 Now you just have to learn not to tell people that ; [ Reply to This ]. With Static IPs Authored by: EatingPie on May 30, '06 A much better way is described here: Mac on May 31, '06 Here's a modifies version which works on my system: This does NOT work in my network environment. Search Advanced. From our Sponsor Latest Mountain Lion Hints Click here for complete coverage of Lion on Macworld.

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