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$ more /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.The MAC address is an important parameter of network equipment, including PC hardware or servers.

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I just tested creating a full clone of a Linux VM, and sure enough the file was updated with the new IP and MAC address. That's the file where WS writes all of its VMs NAT networking info, which ( I think ) gets updated automatically when the guest IPs are changed by the DHCP server. I could easily extract the IPs from their respective MAC addresses. while searching /etc/vmware directory, I found that the info in the file dhcpd.leases in /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/ directory, seems to do the trick as well. didn't know that, it gave me all the info I needed. These options ( -sP ) of nmap worked great: I'll assign points as soon as they're available.

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Lou and vmroyale, your answers are definitely helpful, but I don't see the helpful buttons near your usernames ( software issues, I believe ). Maybe I'm doing something wrong btw I'm an occasional user of both these commands.

Whereas with nmap command I get no valid results, ( sudo nmap -T Aggressive -A 192.168.51.0/24 - some verbose non-helpful info ). Kind of defeats the point of providing only hostname and MAC addr. It works only when I provide* IP address* and MAC addr.

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When I'm trying to update the table, using hostname and MAC addr, it does not accept it. I'm having some issues with arp command though.

So, now I know that the machine VMName1, with MAC 00:14:BF:19:45:61 has IP address 10.0.2.1 and is my Linksys router.ĭan, vmroyale - thanks for your assistance, but the problem with vmrun command is that it requires username / password written explicitly in the open, a bit unsecure that could be my last resort. Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (4 hosts up) scanned in 3.71 seconds Then I could run a combination of arp and/or nmap to find the MAC address of active machines and their respective IP addresses. For example, I create a table and put it in a file like so: If I were to create a (database type) file with each VM's name and MAC address, then I could use nmap or arp commands to obtain the IP address. That said, what I was trying to say was:Įach (real and virtual)machine has a unique MAC address. Probably the easiest solution is to use static IP addresses.

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