How to find the ip of a mac-address

Dan Track dan.track at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 14:42:58 UTC 2006


On 3/13/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:04 +0100, Michaël Hooreman wrote:
> > For me, you can't get the IP address from the MAC address: the MAC is
> > not related to the IP by any way.
>
> If your PC has had communications with the other, it will have
> remembered both details and correlated them together.  The arp command's
> output will show you that.  True that they're only related by
> coincidence, but that's enough.
>


Thanks to all who replied. I used what you suggested, i.e broadcast
and then match with arp.
It worked.

Thanks
Dan




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