switching advice

[wouter]

HI

i'm currently switching from win2000 to ubuntu, so as you can imagine, i'm trying to find programs that do the things the programs i use under win2000 do.

I've found most of them, but i am still looking for an equivalent to my trusted old look@lan

when i search adept for "network monitoring" all i get are packet sniffers, wich is not exactly what i am looking for. i just want to know if any new computers turn up on my lan.

thanks

wouter

[trickster]

http://freshmeat.net/projects/cancerbero/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/knetscan/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/opensims/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/os-sim/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/knetmap/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pbnj/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/nmap/

[tuxette]

Try arpwatch. It sends emails to you if the server detects any ARP requests from unknown MAC addresses on your local LAN / network segment.

It won't work if the new device is on a different LAN segment.