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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:52:22 -0800
From:      Charlie Schluting <charlie@schluting.com>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Resolving MAC address
Message-ID:  <42423976.7000608@schluting.com>
In-Reply-To: <200503240339.j2O3dpoN099306@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200503240339.j2O3dpoN099306@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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Olivier Nicole wrote:

> ? (10.0.0.1) at 00:e0:29:ad:5a:aa on em0 [ethernet]
> 
> will do the trick, but it is a bit too heavy for the purpose, I'd
> prefer a solution that only send an ARP request.
> 

If you just want to avoid the DNS lookup, you can use arp -an.
Its much faster :)

-Charlie



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