Re: Arp pinging

["Chris the Elder" <chippo () cequrux com>]

Oops.  I'm also obviously a newbie with mailers and mail formatting.  
  
What my email should have looked like is:  
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Greetings,  
  
I'm new to nmap, and I hope one day to be hardcore/hacker.  But I can't find  
a newbies nmap mailing list.  Sorry. 
  
I was hoping that I could find a section in the nmap man page related to 
pinging that said something like: 
  
-Q  Do arp pinging.  Nmap arps for an ethernet address for a specific  
    IP address, to decide whether to scan that address.  Note, this  
    pinging will only work on broadcast networks.  
  
Is it possible to get nmap to do this currently?  Is there maybe a reason  
that this is undesirable or unfeasible or of not much use to anyone?  
  
The reason that I fanasized about such an option, is that on this network,  
people run personal firewalls, which block icmp.  They also have disparate  
enough uses, that there isn't a small number of TCP ports that I could use  
for TCP pinging to find the up machines.  
  
Cheers,  
chippo 

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