Discovering the default gateway without DHCP
- by JavaRocky
A crazy question, but is there anyway to discover the default gateway without DHCP?
This would be for a device on a network which does not use DHCP which does not have an IP address as yet. I was thinking if I could discover the default gateway, then i could try to guess an unused ip address then broadcast on the network to see if it's being used.
I may be asking for trouble i understand. E.g. if there is already a computer which has a static IP and is shutdown.