Is this possible

Lee H

Hi

Imagine, yer am talking about me, you have the name of a PC and you can ping it.

Is it possible to obtain the MAC address of that PC without having to look on the DHCP server

Any help is great

Lee H

tiersten

If they're on the same subnet as you then yes. Otherwise no.

Run "arp -a" after doing something that tries to talk to that IP e.g. ping.

dynamik

>ping 192.168.0.1

Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 3ms

>arp -a

Interface: 192.168.0.184 --- 0xb
  Internet Address      Physical Address      Type
  192.168.0.1           00-13-46-88-fe-45     dynamic

Edit: or what Tiersten said

meadIT

Lee H wrote: »

Hi

Imagine, yer am talking about me, you have the name of a PC and you can ping it.

Is it possible to obtain the MAC address of that PC without having to look on the DHCP server

Any help is great

Lee H

Have you tried arp?

edit: Or what them two said.

Lee H

Thanks Guys

It works great >arp -a

The one I first tried must have been a laptop cos it returned 3 mac address's

JDMurray

What about the good 'ole ipconfig /all command?

tiersten

JDMurray wrote: »

What about the good 'ole ipconfig /all command?

He isn't on the PC he's trying to find the MAC address of.