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Communicating to a device with a random IP, Subnet Mask and Gateway

The DUT (device-under-test) should ALWAYS be in it's own network. You have no idea what sort of things could be on the device sent back to you. It will be difficult to talk to a device when you know ...
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How do you assign sequential IP addresses to individual ports on a switch?

The problem is with a normal switch and dhcp server, the dhcp server does not know which port the device is plugged in to. Some higher-end switches do seem to offer functionality to support this ...
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Get all reachable IP addresses within a private network

There's no really reliable way. Generally, you'd need a request-response type protocol that is implemented (or mandatory) on all hosts. While ARP is a protocol that must work for IPv4 to function, ...
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How do you assign sequential IP addresses to individual ports on a switch?

I do not want to use vlans I do not want it to be complicated. I just want simple IP4 addresses in order. As the song says, "You can't always get what you want." Switches, being layer 2 ...
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Communicating to a device with a random IP, Subnet Mask and Gateway

You should connect that device to an extra network segment/VLAN and move the necessary configuration from your workstation to the router connecting that VLAN. However, there's no magical way to make ...
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