Ping a mac address

December 4, 2005

HI All

I am looking for a tool that can ping mac address

The only tool that I found is arping from

http://freshmeat.net/projects/arping/

The only problem is that it can’t ping windows machine and is working only
for

machines which answer broadcast pings.

Is there anything like that or am I searching for something that doesn’t
exist.

Thanx In Advance For All The Help

- Dear Roni Bachar,

The Answer is (among others) : Cain (http://www.oxid.it)
Does all possible Broadcast options

- Hi,
you can try to use netdiscover :

http://nixgeneration.com/~jaime/netdiscover/

It works good .

cheers

- arpscan

- If you have a Cisco.com login you can download their free IP Setup Utility (IPSU) that allows you to enter a MAC address and it essentially pings that MAC and returns an IP address. If this is on a LAN I would also recommend using your DHCP server and finding its IP by looking for the MAC in your client lease list.

John Tavares

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