In this case only one machine on my home network has actually responded (on 192.168.2.101). Note however that some devices and computers may be configured not to respond to ping requests.Īfter running this command, I see the following output: Ping the special address to see what machines respond Now just enter this address into the ping command in Terminal, for example:Įvery device on your local network should respond to this ping. For example, my subnet address has the zero in the fourth position – so my “special” ping address will be 192.168.2.255. Now, you need to look for any 0 values in the subnet mask, turn them into 255, and put them into the same position in the IP address field, and then ping that network address. Open System Preferences and click the Network icon, then select the TCP/IP tab at the top as shown below: Your IP and MAC addresses are shown in Network settings Unfortunately, OS X does not include this version, but there is another way to get most devices to respond.īoth of these items can be found in the Network section in System Preferences. Some versions of UNIX (on which OS X is based) include a special version of ping which lets you send a broadcast message that every device receiving it will respond to. The ping command just repeats forever until you press CTRL + C to stop it. In general, the further away the machine is (or the slower the network it’s connected to), the higher the ping times will be. The items of particular interest are the IP address (which is the dotted decimal address in four parts that identifies a machine on the network) and the response time in milliseconds, which is how long the ping took to complete. How to get the IP Address in Linux - ImagineLinux
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