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06-28-2004, 04:04 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: warsaw
Distribution: Own ;)
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Getting NIC MAC adress
Hi
How can I get MAC adress of a NIC having only the ip for it.
Thanx
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06-28-2004, 04:34 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
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You can use "arp".
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06-28-2004, 05:02 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
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You may have to ping the address first to get it into the arp cache. Then run the command: For example......
arp -a 192.168.0.1
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06-28-2004, 11:38 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Beautiful BC
Distribution: RedHat & clones, Slackware, SuSE, OpenBSD
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use /sbin/arping as root.
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