Scanning for my printer's "new" IP address

[bene at klatsch.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:17:02AM -0500, Doug wrote:
> Isn't there a command to look through local IP addresses for the
> printer, which is listening for print jobs?  This machine is being
> assigned the address 192.168.1.2 by the DHCP server.

You can use nmap for this.

nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24

will do a ping sweep of your subnet looking for machines that 
respond.  If the printer is configured not to respond to ICMP, 
you can start doing trickier stuff with nmap to get a response.
Read the man page for details.

-b

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