John: I found the arping-2.06 package on the internet, attempted to compile, but saw that it was missing a libnet.h header so I checked and found that that library was not installed on my Suse 11.0 x86_64 system. I installed libnet (and debug library also), then compiled without a hitch.
However, after trying this, I saw, using wireshark (ethereal) that just a ping was being issued to destination 255.255.255.255, but nothing answered, even when I had issued a specific MAC address Then I read up on Suse 11.0 iputils package and found that they have an arping, however this command works backwards and expects you to know the IP address, then gives you the MAC address. There apparently is confusion here. I believe the command we really want is "arping MAC" (and options such as -i eth0 for the interface, etc) and the reply to be MAC + IP I will keep digging deeper as the arping-2.06 package doesn't seem to work either on my local LAN, although I know that my D-Link router has it okay, because I am using MAC verification, and every so often the router asks "Who has MAC?" and my machines answer back. Randall -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
