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If you are on the same network, or Vlan, or subnet as someone else you will probably notice that if you ping their hostname it will return with a IPv6 address.
If you want to still see what their IPv4 address is then simply use the command below:
ping hostname -4
Simply add a “-4″ after your normal ping command.
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You are a genius! I’ve spend hours trying to figure out why I could not get ipv4 return from pinging. I have a home LAN with 5 computers. Would this qualify for what you are saying “on the same network?” I just never heard this before. Thanks for your help.