From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 12: 9:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3012A37B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AEC543E42 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 38869 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2002 19:09:16 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 14 Aug 2002 19:09:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 31136 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Aug 2002 19:09:16 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:09:16 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Mark Rowlands Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tool to derive ip from mac address of a remote box? Message-ID: <20020814190916.GC30676@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <200208142056.45333.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200208142056.45333.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2002-08-14 (20:56), Mark Rowlands wrote: > I know this is not strictly freebsd related but ......there is a dodgy network > card somewhere on my network pumping 1.5mb/s of crap..... All I have is a mac > address, how can I get an ip for it? If the troublesome machine has sent IP packets to your FreeBSD machine recently, its IP and MAC addresses will be in your ARP table. "arp -na" will display the current contents of that table. -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message