Find your IP address
I ran ifconfig command to find out that my IP address is 192.168.1.16
ifconfig # wlp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 # inet 192.168.1.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 # inet6 fe80::bb94:a6ff:fcd5:3ea1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> # ether e8:78:f6:c7:7a:f1 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) # RX packets 947533 bytes 808159752 (770.7 MiB) # RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 # TX packets 330219 bytes 42886507 (40.8 MiB) # TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Scan network
To scan for other devices or computers connected on the same network, I used nmap utility. I installed it using apt-get install nmap. I scanned all IP addresses under 192.168.1 network as follows:
nmap -sL 192.168.1.* # Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.0 # Nmap scan report for ControlPanel.Home (192.168.1.1) # Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.2 # ... # Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.13 # Nmap scan report for android-78854f3bd701a199 (192.168.1.14) # Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.15 # Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.16 # Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.17 # Nmap scan report for MYCOMPUTER (192.168.1.18) # ... # Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.255 # Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 4.25 seconds
As you can see, there are 3 other devices on the network:
- 192.168.1.1
- 192.168.1.14
- 192.168.1.18
About the author
Xuan Ngo is the founder of OpenWritings.net. He currently lives in Montreal, Canada. He loves to write about programming and open source subjects.