How to know ip address from mac

Thu Sep 15 13:31:57 UTC 2005

On Thursday 15 September 2005 07:19, 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?

On a machine where this traffic can be seen tcpdump can be used:

tcpdump -e -n ether host <mac address>

Regards, Mike Klinke