Hi,

But i really need to do it without using this method.
I was curious why you have this limitation..

I am not sure if you refer to Windows perl module Win32::NetPacket or the unix packet.h stuff.

Whatever platform you're on already has a quick method to access the arp table without resorting to an extra layer of activity - the info is already right there!!

Curious why you might want to get the arp data - perhaps knowing your ultimate goal might help come up with a solution... realizing that the arp table stuff, except for some very specific reasons, is generally not all that useful- what with aging, looking at the arp table is not a precise indicator of what IP addresses are "out there" at the moment. Additionally interfaces that are in fact "out there" may not, at any given moment, be in the arp table.

-hsinclai

In reply to Re: Fetching ARP table with NetPacket by hsinclai
in thread Fetching ARP table with NetPacket by RnC

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