Finding neighbours on my LAN
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Jan 19 09:06:52 UTC 2014
On 01/19/2014 03:52 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 19 January 2014, Suvayu Ali sent:
>> I had forgotten about this possibility. This works nicely for
>> wireless using SSIDs, is it possible to do this for wired connections?
>> After all they do not have something similar to SSID to serve as
>> identifier.
> There's MAC addresses of the hardware your computer connects to.
> There's the domain names of the LANs you connect to.
>
> Just try setting up two network configurations in NetworkManager, and
> see if it automatically manages to distinguish between them. If it
> doesn't, then you can worry about what tweaks you may have to do.
Perhaps if you found the mac address of the landlords router, which
should be your default route (route -n), you can use that to identify
which network you are on.
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