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Networking

Linux Device Discovery

All SPRINT products broadcast an mDNS service which allows their identification on a network, even when these devices are on different subnets. This discovery process is easy from a Linux machine running Avahi.

To install Avahi, run apt install avahi-utils.

The following command can be used to discover SPRINT products on your network: 

avahi-browse _dns-sd._tcp --terminate --resolve --ignore-local

An example output of this command looks like this: 

+ enp3s0 IPv4 Sonardyne Discovery                           _dns-sd._tcp         local
= enp3s0 IPv4 Sonardyne Discovery #2                        _dns-sd._tcp         local
= enp3s0 IPv4 Sonardyne Discovery                           _dns-sd._tcp         local
   hostname = [Sonardyne-Device.local]
   address = [192.168.179.15]
   port = [80]
   txt = ["serial_number=000000-000" "display_name=SPRINT-Nav U"]
This tells us we have a SPRINT-Nav U on the IP address 192.168.179.15