Re: Resolving MAC address

From: Olivier Nicole (on_at_cs.ait.ac.th)
Date: 03/24/05

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    Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:58:37 +0700 (ICT)

    > > ? (10.0.0.1) at 00:e0:29:ad:5a:aa on em0 [ethernet]
    > >
    > > will do the trick, but it is a bit too heavy for the purpose, I'd
    > > prefer a solution that only send an ARP request.
    > >
    >
    > If you just want to avoid the DNS lookup, you can use arp -an.
    > Its much faster :)

    Thanks. Off course I use arp -n to avoid DNS resolution.

    But what i really want to avoid is sending any IP/ICMP packet when the
    ARP resolution is all I need. (And some people even filter out the
    ICMP echo request packets (Windows XP firewall), so I have to wait for
    the time out).

    Olivier
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