RE: mac addr lookups?

["Escobar, Henry J." <HENRY.J.ESCOBAR () cpmx saic com>]

Isn't this thread going the same way of "nmap-2.03 DNS address scanner?"
(don't know of an nmap mailing list archive...)

one of the things that makes Unix great, and a reason we all love it, is
that there are alot of small, simple tools that do there job well. If you
want to do more, you chain them together to make the tool you WANT. 

How many ways can you use "cat?" 

If you want a mac addr lookup tied in with nmap, then write a script to do
it. Use perl,tcl, or borne or whatever script language you want.

tie in arptool, arp, or hunt or anyother of your favorite arp tools with
nmap. Make your killer tool do what you want!

None of use are asking Fyodor to build in a compiled in gui for nmap,
someone used tcl and wish to do that already! (plus who likes guis
anyways???).

I don't want to see nmap bogged down in code bloat, trying to do more than
it is supposed to do. nmap is supposed to be a nice, "simple," portscanner
<PERIOD>. 

I want to see it kept that way, and I am sure most of us do as well.