If you've got something in perl, that would be great... =)

OK, attached is a bit of perl to get you started. I am not a very good perl programmer so it is ugly. This sends a UDP packet to a given IP and dumps the response out. Set the variables $local_host and $remote_host near the top to your computers IP and your empegs IP address and you will get back the empegs name and ID. You are on your own getting broadcast to work since I am not sure how to do that in perl.

-Mike