Re: mac address's
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 14:05 -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 14:51 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
> > How might I find mac address's on all the machine's on my network from
> > my debian box?
>
> You could ssh or telnet to them and ifconfig. Ifconfig will give the MAC
> of every configured interface on the machine, no matter which net it's
> on.
>
> Or ping them, then look at the arp map. Ping will give you the
> hostname/IP mapping; arp will give IP/MAC.
>
> 'ping <hostname>'
> ^C
> 'arp'
Just be careful using arp if you are on a switched network. I used ssh
and a little script to get me all of the mac addresses from Mac OSX and
Linux boxes.
GL...
>
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> Glenn English
> ghe@slsware.com
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