"I want to SSH into my laptop, but I keep forgetting its IP!!"
Has this ever happened to you?
```text $ lookaround client
Found 3 peers:
11:11:11:11:11:11 = 192.168.1.101 laptop
22:22:22:22:22:22 = 192.168.1.102 desktop
33:33:33:33:33:33 = 192.168.1.103 old-laptop
```
LookAround is a Rust program for looking up your computers' MAC and IP addresses within a LAN. There's no central server, so it's not a look-up, it's a look-around.
The client uses IP multicast to find servers within the same multicast domain, similar to Avahi and Bonjour.
Systems self-identify by MAC address and nicknames. Public keys with TOFU semantics are intended before v1.0.0.
Use the Cargo package manager from Rust to install LookAround.
bash
cargo install lookaround
To run the server as a normal user all the time,
put this systemd unit in ~/.config/systemd/user/lookaround.service:
```ini [Unit] Description=LookAround
[Service] ExecStart=/home/user/.cargo/bin/lookaround server --nickname my-desktop
[Install] WantedBy=default.target ```
Then start the service, check that it's running okay, and enable it for auto-start:
bash
systemctl --user start lookaround
systemctl --user status lookaround
systemctl --user enable lookaround
Run the server manually: (If you haven't installed it with systemd yet)
bash
lookaround server --nickname my-desktop
Run a client to ping all servers in the same multi-cast domain:
bash
lookaround client
Check which IP addresses LookAround will auto-detect:
bash
lookaround my-ips
Pull requests are welcome. This is a hobby project, so I may reject contributions that are too big to review.
Use the kazupon Git commit message convention
This repo's upstream is https://six-five-six-four.com/git/reactor/lookaround. It's mirrored on my GitHub, https://github.com/ReactorScram/lookaround
I don't use GitHub issues, so issues are in issues.md in the repo.