detect host type?

[Evgeny]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Evgeny Karyakin
<anthropophagite at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe http://nmap.org/book/man-os-detection.html ?

For nmap to work, there hane to be some network services on other side.
I don't think some *random PC* will have one.
May be some device info as shown in syslog/dmesg on Frerunner will help?
I don't own Frerunner, so can't check it myself.

> 2008/12/20 Joel Newkirk <freerunner at newkirk.us>:
>> OK, an FR has just been plugged into the USB port on a random host PC.
>>
>> Is there any way for the FR to consistently identify if it is a windows,
>> mac, or linux host?

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