Goal:
From my backup box on my local network, knowing the Wifi MAC address of my laptop, I would like to dynamically identify which ip address is attributed to my laptop.
The aim is to store this ip address in a local variable and that this information is retrieved by another backup script
Problem:
Calling the command nmap, as root user I want to write a script that will extract the ip address from the MAC address of my laptop.
Question:
How would you do that and with which script language?
Shell, perl, python?
Example:
from the result of nmap and with the MAC address X1:X2:3X:X4:X5:Y6, I want to extract:
Laptop-Fred=192.168.0.10
# nmap
Starting Nmap 6.45 ( Nmap - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits. ) at 2014-10-30 07:05 CET
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.1
Host is up (0.0047s latency).
MAC Address: XX:XF:0X:X1:XX:YY (Netgear)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.10
Host is up (0.074s latency).
MAC Address: X1:X2:3X:X4:X5:Y6 (Netgear)
Host is up.
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (2 hosts up) scanned in 5.61 seconds
Many thanks for any input!
Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Where do you get the string "Laptop-Fred"?
And do you want to extract the IP from the output of nmap?
Does the mac X1:X2:3X:X4:X5:Y6 corresponds to 192.168.0.10?
Laptop-Fred was in my mind a shell variable, call it var_laptop_1 if this is better and this vari2ble would have to store the ip address 192.168.0.10 of the laptop we are trying to identify
From the result of nmap in this dhcp configuration the mac address X1:X2:3X:X4:X5:Y6 corresponds to 192.168.0.10
There doesn't seem to be a relation between laptop-1 or laptop_fred and the MAC address given. So how should any command/program/script select 192.168.0.10 instead of 192.168.0.1 to place into your variable?
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Well, I think there is a relation:
The ip address associated to the MAC address
is the ip address 2 lines above the MAC address.
But how to extract this with a script?
Maybe should I first change the output of nmap?