From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 13:21:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CC537B440 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:20:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from d226-39-102.home.cgocable.net ([24.226.39.102] helo=x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 1671HG-0007KY-00; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:20:58 -0500 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAMLRPx44247; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:27:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:27:25 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: P K Cc: Subject: Re: arp -a In-Reply-To: <005301c173b5$96d8a5e0$0100a8c0@cr1034264a> Message-ID: <20011122162456.U44214-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 22 Nov 2001, P K wrote: > Hi all > > I ping yahoo.com. I couldn't get mac address from arp -a > Why? > How do I get the mac address? You can't unless you happen to be on the same cable segment as yahoo.com. That's just how ARP works. See for yourself: http://www.tildefrugal.net/geek/arp.html Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message