How to check under Linux who is connected to my ad-hoc network

Question

I made ad-hoc wireless network on my Gentoo workstation using NetworkManager. Is there any way to see what network adapters are connected to this network?

Answer 1

netstat should be able to show this.

netstat -aenp | grep 'INSERT_IP_OF_ETH_ADAPTER_HERE'

For example:

[ 12:13 root@host ~ ]# netstat -aenp | grep '10.10.1.11'
tcp        0     52 10.10.1.11:22               198.74.40.169:46429         ESTABLISHED 0          34722586   29599/sshd: jon [pr
tcp        0      0 10.10.1.11:5109             10.10.1.34:62142            ESTABLISHED 505        23721631   28772/istatd
udp        0      0 10.10.1.11:123              0.0.0.0:*                               38         30885053   1611/ntpd
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should show who is connected on a certain interface. If you don't know the IP or interface to use, do ifconfig -a and see which is running your ad-hoc network and it should show the IP address.