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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:09:16 +0200
From:      David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za>
To:        Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
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>
In-Reply-To: <200208142056.45333.mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
References:  <200208142056.45333.mark.rowlands@minmail.net>

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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

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