How to know ip address from mac

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Sep 15 12:23:24 UTC 2005


Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been checking our network traffic using iptraf, and it seems that a 
> client is consuming high bandwidth. Unfortunately, iptraf only shows the mac 
> address. 
> Can I get the ip address from the mac address?
> I don't use dhcp so I cannot use dhcpreport.pl --mac.

If the offending client is on the same LAN segment as you, you may be 
able to find it by grepping the output of "/sbin/arp -a"

Paul.




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