Using nmap to find network devices (IP, MAC) in your LAN

If someday you plug a device which does not have a display (something like a monitor) into your LAN network and don't know where it is on the network (IP address), E.g my Beaglebone Black, you can use nmap. Nmap is a free network scanner utility.

$ sudo nmap -sn 172.18.0.0/16

(scan the 172.18.0.0 network, my LAN network, to find the device)

The results are something like:


I can see one Texas Instruments device which is my Beaglebone Black's network chip manufacturer. So, that is my board.



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