[vox-tech] too lazy to look it up

[ME]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Paul Barnhart wrote:
> Is there some utility that will return the hardware address(MAC) of 
> every ethernet card on a network.

arpwatch is rather passive. It waits till it "sees" a new MAC address it
has not before. Actually, I think it looks for IP and MAC address pairs in
combination not seen before.

You could make a perl script that tries to talk with every IP address in
your subnet, and then consults /proc/net/wrp with a search on that IP
address being checked to pull out the MAC addresses in use, but that is
more of an active scan...


-ME

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