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ianperrin / MMM-NetworkScanner

A module for MagicMirror which determines the status of devices on the network based on their MAC or IP address
MIT License
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How to use the network option #26

Closed E3V3A closed 6 years ago

E3V3A commented 6 years ago

The readme says: network "-l"... (Is hard to tell if it is an uppercase i or a lower case L!) It's a lowercase L.
But how to use that option and when?

man pages for arp-scan:

--localnet or -l Generate addresses from network interface configuration. Use the network interface IP address and network mask to generate the list of target host addresses. The list will include the network and broadcast addresses, so an interface address of 10.0.0.1 with netmask 255.255.255.0 would generate 256 target hosts from 10.0.0.0 to 10.0.0.255 inclusive. If you use this option, you cannot specify the --file option or specify any target hosts on the command line. The interface specifications are taken from the interface that arp-scan will use, which can be changed with the --interface option.

ianperrin commented 6 years ago

@E3V3A - I've tweaked the description for the network option to clarify the use of -l

This option was introduced to address a particular need (#9) and can generally be omitted.