How to find MAC addresses on network?

Alex Katebi alex.katebi at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 13:24:56 UTC 2009


How about pinging your HP printer. Does it have an IP address? Then you can
do dcpdump on the echo reply and look at the mac address.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> Is there a (reasonably) straightforward way of finding the MAC
> addresses of systems (well, strictly, interfaces) on a network?
>
> arping works for some but not all of my hardware, presumably some
> things (like my HP printer) don't respond to arping.  What can I use
> to find the MAC address of the printer?
>
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