How to get the MAC address of the 'local' system given the IP address?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri Jan 31 09:52:16 UTC 2020


On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 07:03:03PM -0800, rikona wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:22:48 +0000
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > You'd think this was easy but although I can find the information
> > easily enough I can't find a concise way of doing it.
> 
> Perhaps you might log onto the router? Mine gives me a table with the
> IP and MAC addresses for all connected devices.
> 
But not their names and not the company associated with the MAC address.

I use this quite frequently to identify devices on my LAN, there are
often 20 or more and some of them are not easily identified by just
their IP address.


-- 
Chris Green




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list