Re: Arp pinging

[Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:57:27AM +0200, Chris the Elder wrote:

> -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.  

(to be more precise, on any ARP based network)

> Is it possible to get nmap to do this currently?

No.

> Is there maybe a reason  that this is undesirable or unfeasible or
> of not much use to anyone?  

This is a reasonable feature and AFAIK Fyodor is planning to implement
it some day...

In the meantime, get 'thcrut' from http://www.thc.org/ to do the job.

Martin Mačok
ICT Security Consultant

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