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August 15, 2001 at 1:58 pm #2342916

How to ping a mac address

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by bigbadwolf · about 23 years, 4 months ago

How does one ping the mac address of an ethernet device such as a NIC in a PC?

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- August 15, 2001 at 4:01 pm #3719131
  
  Maybe not PING, but…
  
  by bill_w · about 23 years, 4 months ago
  
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  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.
- August 15, 2001 at 4:39 pm #3719127
  
  arp
  
  by darpaicq · about 23 years, 4 months ago
  
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  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.
  - August 15, 2001 at 5:06 pm #3719114
    
    thank you
    
    by bigbadwolf · about 23 years, 4 months ago
    
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    Thank you everyone who has replied. I very much appreciate it.
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