How to determine all the IP addresses of machines on local LAN??

[JavaEmpires]

Hi all,

I want to know , how to determine the IP addresses of machines on my local LAN. and ultimately how many machines are there in the network.

And also how to determine the network traffic for a particular PC...


Thanx in advance

[CaptainMorgan]

Welcome to the Java Forums JavaEmpires.

I believe this topic as been discussed before, please utilize the site's search engine. An answer to your first sentence can likely be inferred from here. I'm not sure about traffic however, so maybe someone will chime in regarding that one.

See you around!

[roots]

I havent been on such cases but I have seen JBoss with cluster mode able to discover all the machines running JBoss in the LAN. They used JGroups for the multicast networking you might get something from JBoss or JGroups codes both are avialable in Jboss.org.
Multicast ping can be one thing you might want to research on. Or regular unicast ping with generated ip for local network can be other bad* option.
For traffic SNMP4J - Free Open Source SNMP API for Java might help .. I am not sure if you can use packet sniffers for this purpose as well WinPcap Network Tools and Links
Lists some of the java port of winpcap.

These are just suggestions, I wish other will contribute as well.

[JavaEmpires]

I.. I.. CaptainMorgan

Thanx for ur suggestions... u both of u..

Regards
JavaEmpires