From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 17:50:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06257 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:50:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06210 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbutt@mwci.net) Received: from firewall.mwci.net (firewall.mwci.net [205.254.160.134]) by subcellar.mwci.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA13902; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:49:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 19:50:13 -0600 (CST) From: "James D. Butt" To: Andrew cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: convert mac address to ip address In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Does anyone know of a utility to convert a mac address to an ip address? > We have a rogue pc somewhere which, once a day, appears to request a huge > amount of data and clogs up our network. Unfortunately the only > information we can get from our router statistics is its mac address. arp -a |grep macaddress -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' Network Engineer Voice 319-557-8463 Network Operations Center Fax 319-557-9771 MidWest Communications, Inc. Pager 319-557-6347 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message