> Others already suggested "sudo" as the way to deal with the arping > problem. > But... are you really able to use arping to get MAC addresses of > hosts not > on the Ethernet local to the host you arping from? (I assume that > is what > you mean by "in a different subnet".) > > I was curious about this, so I tested it here. With the current > Debian-Sid > version of arping, arping'ing the IP address of a host on my DMZ > from my > LAN returns the MAC address of my router (since it does proxy > arp), NOT the > MAC address of the target host's own interface. If I arping the > actual MAC > address of the DMZ host (as shown in the arp table of my router), > I get no > response. > > Am I missing something? I ask because this problem -- how to get > the MAC > address of a non-local host -- comes up again and again, and I > always > believed there was no solution to it (excluding ones that involve > running > some application on the target host). Am I mistaken?
Sorry. My mistake. It cant retrieve the MAC address of a machine on a different subnet. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
