Re: Pinging a MAC address

[tonyking () hushmail com]

If you are running unix on your laptop you can try arping.
Read about it here.
http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/arping/

Homepage of Author
http://synscan.nss.nu/programs.php
ftp://ftp.nss.nu/pub/synscan/arping-0.96.tar.gz

-Tony

At Wed, 30 May 2001 11:22:56 +0800, Alex Balayan <alex.balayan () Nettasking com> 
wrote:

> Hi all, 
>
>
> Say you are conducting a internal pen-test and you are only given a 
> network
> port to plug your laptop into. Say you have obtained a list of MAC addresses
> that are on that ethernet segment. Is there a tool on *nix that can 
> be used
> to ping a MAC address (00:20:A4:F7:89:15) to see if you get a reply 
> back
> from that device?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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