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Re: Ping a mac address
From: rob.dijkshoorn () planet nl
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:11:45 +0100
Hi, Seems to me you are mixing up osi-layer functionality. A MAC-address is a layer 2 (physical) address. This address only has significance on the local broadcast domain. In ip-terms, your local subnet. Ping is a layer 4 protocol, used to check end-to-end connectivity between ip-adresses. You can't use ping to ping a mac-address, since the protocol underlying ping (ICMP) won't understand it. What you want to do is translate between ip- and mac-addresses. For this, the address resolution protocol (ARP) is used, alongside its brother, the reverse address resolution protocol (RARP). If you want to figure out what ip-address belongs to a specific mac, you need RARP. The fastest way to check this is to check the arp cache on the switch. As for tools... i guess some good suggestions have been made on the list already. regards, Rob ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: Roni Bachar <roni () avnet co il> Datum: zaterdag, december 3, 2005 9:43 am Onderwerp: Ping a mac address
Hi again I guess I didn't explain my self good. What I want is tool that i can do: Ping 00:0F:EA:8C:FC:5A And in return get the ip of this mac
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