Re: Pinging a MAC address

From: tonykingat_private
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 01:31:16 PDT

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    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.balayanat_private> 
    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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