Re: How to get Mac Address from IP

Based solely on the "Name" (for I have no experience with neither one of them), I think you're looking at the wrong module.

NetPacket::ARP: "Assemble and disassemble ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) packets."

Net::Address::Ethernet: "find hardware ethernet address."

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b10m

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Re: Re: How to get Mac Address from IP by arden (Curate) on Jan 13, 2004 at 17:31 UTC
Sorry b10m, but bengmau is looking for the MAC of a remote system on his domain. According to CPAN, Net::Address::Ethernet only finds the MAC of the local machine. Unfortunately bengmau, I don't have an answer strictly in perl for you yet, I just didn't want you to get frustrated with this module. Abigail-II's solution below works great if there's already an entry in your arp table. You might want to ping the ip just before you do the arp -a on it... Oh yeah, and make sure that either arp is in your path or address it explicitly.	[reply]

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Re: Re: How to get Mac Address from IP
by arden (Curate) on Jan 13, 2004 at 17:31 UTC

b10m

bengmau

remote

Net::Address::Ethernet

local

Unfortunately bengmau, I don't have an answer strictly in perl for you yet, I just didn't want you to get frustrated with this module. Abigail-II's solution below works great if there's already an entry in your arp table. You might want to ping the ip just before you do the arp -a on it... Oh yeah, and make sure that either arp is in your path or address it explicitly.

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