[CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Mon, July 19, 2010 12:29, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 7/19/2010 9:22 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>> In the long run, they'll be static; but at the moment the permanent IPs
>>> haven't been assigned, and I'm just letting them pick something up via
>>> corporate DHCP (to avoid conflicting with anything else on the
>>> network).
>>>    It's at this early experimental stage that it'd be handy to find out
>>> externally what they ended up being.
>>
>> Haven't really been following this thread, but why not set the guests
>> VMs
>> up with 192.168 IPs, and let the host serve DHCP with masquerading to
>> them?
>>
>
> Has anyone suggested arpwatch yet?  I think it can send you email when a
> new mac/ip appears on the network and would be useful even outside the
> context of virtual machines.

Nobody has previously, that I've noticed anyway.  Thanks, that sounds like
it does just what I'm looking for.

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