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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [patch, rfc] put IP addresses into xenstore (Gerd Kn

To: "Bonnell, David" <David_Bonnell@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [patch, rfc] put IP addresses into xenstore (Gerd Knorr)
From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:48:06 +0100
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Bonnell, David wrote:
I have been using arping to do a reverse ARP on the MAC address(es) to
obtain the IP address(es) used by each domain but this will be easier.

How does that work? What I've found depends on either the host replying to broadcast pings or on brute-force, i.e. try every IP address in the network (which isn't exactly nice, especially in a /16 ...).

cheers,
  Gerd

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