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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:08:36 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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:  <20020814210836.GB2459@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200208142056.45333.mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
References:  <200208142056.45333.mark.rowlands@minmail.net>

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In the last episode (Aug 14), Mark Rowlands said:
> 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 you use managed switches, you can use their arp tables to trace your
way back to the source machine.  Some Ciscos even have an "l2trace"
command that will do a traceroute given a MAC address.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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