So if you try to access a device with the ip 192.168.1.55 try connecting to it by typing 192.168.1.55:8080 in the address bar of your browser.The Address Resolution Protocol uses a simple message format containing one address resolution request or response. Sometimes the remote management surface must be accessed using a special port and most of the time this is the alternative port for webservers 8080. Still can't connect to the device even though the ip is right? You can also limit the scan to a rango of ips e.g. after this info you maybe have to specify eth2, do this by altering the above command with the option -interface like this In case you get an error (ioctl: No such device) you might have to choose your network device manually, get a list of all devices installed with this command Scan your local network with just one command Open up a terminal window and install arp-scan by typing The latter is a good hint to which ip a device belongs to.

If you have admin rights and are ok with installing a small piece of software from the repository, you can make this task even easier and above it even find out more about the active network devices on your network, like the mac adress and the manufacturer of the network card. Don't know your network's ip range or also need the mac addresses and have admin rights? You might find this information in your router.įor ip in $(seq 1 254) do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$ip>/dev/null & echo '192.168.1.$ip UP' || : doneĢ. Change this according to your network settings.

Note: In this example the command would scan all IP addresses in a network that start with 192.168.1._ (the ip range). Open up a terminal window, paste the command underneath inside it and hit enter. Just need the IP address and don't have admin rights?

looking for the browser based control surface of a printer or a nas, this tricks can speed up things if you need an ip address and/or mac address.ġ.

Sometimes you need the ip address of a device, you don't access very often via its ip address.

Scan network mac address