Find an available IP

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Laurent. Posted messages 3 Status Member -  
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Hello,

I need to find a free IP address in a network
but I'm not really sure how to do it?
If someone could explain it to me, that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

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akyrion3000 Posted messages 685 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   166
 
How are the addresses assigned? DHCP? Or via Static IP?

If it's a static IP, you must have a table referencing the PCs and their addresses, otherwise :s
There's the option to ping all the addresses on the network one by one, assuming all the PCs are powered on and connected; the one that doesn't respond is available.

If it's DHCP, then you just need to connect to it to know the IPs that have already been assigned.
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