I have two Active Imaging camera servers model MV-1000. But unlike my
AXIS 240 camera server I can do absolutely nothing with them.  Active
Imaging is out of business and I am desperate to get any scrap of info
on their MV-1000 unit that anyone might know about.  These camera
servers have a built in WEB server that you can access via their IP
address with your browser (http://192.168.0.1 for example).  Once I've
got it's IP address I can interact with the built in server and start
making some headway.  So in general what can be done to discover/find
the IP address of some undocumented unit on a small LAN???

Thanks to anyone who can shed any light on this problem.

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R.Louis wrote:
quote:

>I have two Active Imaging camera servers model MV-1000. But unlike my
>AXIS 240 camera server I can do absolutely nothing with them.  Active
>Imaging is out of business and I am desperate to get any scrap of info
>on their MV-1000 unit that anyone might know about.  These camera
>servers have a built in WEB server that you can access via their IP
>address with your browser (http://192.168.0.1 for example).  Once I've
>got it's IP address I can interact with the built in server and start
>making some headway.  So in general what can be done to discover/find
>the IP address of some undocumented unit on a small LAN???
>
>Thanks to anyone who can shed any light on this problem.
>
>



The device should have a MAC/"ETHERNET" address on its label somewhere
perhaps around the network interface.  If you find it, open a dos window
on your windows machine and do an   "arp -s 192.168.x.x  ETH_ADDRESS"

Pick an ip that is on your network but not in use.

Once your pc has that arp entry, it will be able to communicat with the
MAC address using the ip address that u set.

arp  /? will give you more info


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On 23 Jan 2004 19:05:07 -0800, zrl@dr.com (R.Louis) wrote:
quote:

>I have two Active Imaging camera servers model MV-1000. But unlike my
>AXIS 240 camera server I can do absolutely nothing with them.  Active
>Imaging is out of business and I am desperate to get any scrap of info
>on their MV-1000 unit that anyone might know about.  These camera
>servers have a built in WEB server that you can access via their IP
>address with your browser (http://192.168.0.1 for example).  Once I've
>got it's IP address I can interact with the built in server and start
>making some headway.  So in general what can be done to discover/find
>the IP address of some undocumented unit on a small LAN???


You can try to send ping the limited-broadcast address. I run "ping
255.255.255.255". Note, however, that the device might not respond to
it. Also note that if you have other hosts in the LAN they also might
reply to your "ping".

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:06:29 -0300, Fernando Gont <fgont@softhome.net>
wrote:
quote:

>You can try to send ping the limited-broadcast address. I run "ping
>255.255.255.255". Note, however, that the device might not respond to
>it. Also note that if you have other hosts in the LAN they also might
>reply to your "ping".


I meant "You can try to ping the limited-broadcast address...."

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:41:07 +0000 (UTC), "SlAyEr"
<phlem1MYSHORTS@btinternet.com> wrote:
quote:

>there is a small app called ip sniffer that pings all the network stuff on
>your pc....


An IP sniffer does not do that sort of thing.
You may be talking about a "network scanner", instead.

However, he has no idea of what the IP address may be (AFAIK), so I'd
first try something like pinging the limited-broadcast address, and
only then try some brute force attempt.

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Fernando Gont <fgont@softhome.net> wrote:
quote:

>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:41:07 +0000 (UTC), "SlAyEr"
><phlem1MYSHORTS@btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>
>An IP sniffer does not do that sort of thing.
>You may be talking about a "network scanner", instead.


I'd do a search or check tucow's for a network scanner. I've used
one's (don't have it handy) to scan a subnet, it would list all the
active pings. Then disconnect the unit in question and run it again.
Check for the difference (missing ip address) and you should be all
set.
quote:

>
>However, he has no idea of what the IP address may be (AFAIK), so I'd
>first try something like pinging the limited-broadcast address, and
>only then try some brute force attempt.
>
>--
>Fernando Gont
>e-mail: fernando@ANTISPAM.gont.com.ar
>
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R.Louis wrote:
quote:

> I have two Active Imaging camera servers model MV-1000. But unlike my
> AXIS 240 camera server I can do absolutely nothing with them.  Active
> Imaging is out of business and I am desperate to get any scrap of info
> on their MV-1000 unit that anyone might know about.  These camera
> servers have a built in WEB server that you can access via their IP
> address with your browser (http://192.168.0.1 for example).  Once I've
> got it's IP address I can interact with the built in server and start
> making some headway.  So in general what can be done to discover/find
> the IP address of some undocumented unit on a small LAN???
>
> Thanks to anyone who can shed any light on this problem.


If you're lucky, the thing will send some gratuitous ARP packets to
see that its IP is not already in use.

Get a network sniffer, e.g. Ethereal, connect the server to the
computer with the sniffer (use a hub or crossover cable), switch
the target device on and look for traffic.

HTH

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi

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