The LISa Handbook
LISa is intended to provide a kind of network neighbourhood, but only relying on the TCP/IP protocol stack, no SMB or anything else required.
This is the handbook to both the LAN Information Server (LISa) and the Restricted LAN Information Server (resLISa)

Introduction
LISa is intended to provide a kind of network neighbourhood, but only relying on the TCP/IP protocol stack, no smb or whatever.
It is completely independent from /.
The list of running hosts is provided via TCP port 7741.
LISa supports two ways of finding hosts:
You give LISa a range of IP addresses, then LISa will send ICMP echo requests to all given IP addresses, and wait for the answers.
You can tell LISa to execute nmblookup "*. The command line tool nmblookup must be installed from the Samba package. nmblookup "*" sends a broadcast to the attached networks, and all hosts running SMB services will answer this broadcast.