Re: getting hostname from mac address

2002-03-11 Thread Bill Crawford
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Rahul Torvi wrote: > Hi, > > How can i get the hostname from mac address ?? is there any way?? If it's on the same network, and using TCP/IP, then you can find out the IP address by running "arp -a" or a service called "arpwatch" which wil record in the system log (/var/l

Re: getting hostname from mac address

2002-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
>How can i get the hostname from mac address ?? is there any way??   There is not a one-to-one correlation between MAC addresses and hostnames.  The real problem you've got is that a MAC address doesn't even need to have a hostname.  It doesn't even need an IP address!  In fact, a dhcp clien

getting hostname from mac address

2002-03-10 Thread Rahul Torvi
Hi,   How can i get the hostname from mac address ?? is there any way??   RT