Re: ping MAC address

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 09/25/08 07:01, Achim Stumpf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have looked around, and I have found on the net that once arping could 
> ping mac addresses, but it turns out that it is not possible anymore 
> with newer version of arping.
>
> Does anyone know a tool which is able to ping a mac address?
>
> arping:
>
> # arping 00:0D:60:D4:4B:52
> arping: unknown host 00:0D:60:D4:4B:52

Works for me on Sid.

# arping -h
ARPing 2.08, by Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
[snip]

# arping -R -c 5 00:1E:E5:7A:5E:07
00:1e:e5:7a:5e:07
00:1e:e5:7a:5e:07
00:1e:e5:7a:5e:07
00:1e:e5:7a:5e:07
00:1e:e5:7a:5e:07

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