On 10/20/07, Billy Crook <billycrook@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, nmap is "a software" worth checking out. Even more fun would be
to scan your local subnet in RR for web servers to see what your
neighbors computers are hosting.
nmap -p80
127.69.76.168/20
That would search your local subnet in roadrunner for webservers. I
got /20 from the 255.255.240.0 subnet, and that IP address is the one
the netgear gave as the public. Try it on your own.
When I first had access to roadrunner, I ran ethereal to find out what the
stray packets working their way into my LAN were. (lots of arp requests.)
TWC detected this somehow (perhaps dns lookups for internal routers?
I don't know) and shut off our service until I talked with someone and
promised not to do it again or something. Port scanning your neighbors
is something that they really should detect, if they do or not.
> I googled for an equivalent of ipconfig /release and /renew, and got
> ifconfig up/down <device>, but it sounded like this was for that device, and
> that I had to do something else for the router. So my question is, how would
> I do this for the router? (Netgear, not in the mood to check the model right
> now so just let me know if you need that info)
netgears, as well as linksys and most other COTS routing appliances, use
dynamic configuration over power-line protocol, which is one of the reasons
you will not be allowed to bring your router with you if you have to spend
the night in a hospital for any reason. Anyway, the easiest way to cause such
a device to release and renew its lease is to momentarily disconnect it from
the DCOPLP (pronounced "deek-o-plop") network by removing the black barrel
shaped jack from its socket, counting backwards from 119 to zero by seventeens,
and plugging it back in.