How to ping a mac address

By definition, ping is used to get a response from an IP node, either by ip address or name. However, if you know the IP address, the command "nbtstat -A ip-address" will return the MAC address of the node.

You can't really 'ping' a MAC address. But, if you know the MAC address of a device and if TCP/IP is running on the device and you don't know the IP address of the device you can ping it. Use 'arp -s ipaddr macaddr' to assign an ip address to the device (as far as your machine is concerned). Then you can ping the device using the ipaddr that you entered.