How to find the ip of a mac-address

[Daniel Challen]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:40 +0000, Dan Track wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've got the mac-address of desktop. But I don't know it's IP, are
> there any tools that I can use to find this IP.

Presuming you're on the same LAN, and the desktop is not running Windows
(which does not respond to the broadcast address):
  ping -b 192.168.0.255      (substitute with your broadcast address)
  /sbin/arp -a | grep 00:10:00:FF:FF:FF		(substitute with the MAC
address of the desktop) 

Failing that, you can watch network traffic and hope the desktop machine
generates some traffic:
  tcpdump -v ether host 00:10:00:FF:FF:FF


- Dan


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