Remote MAC Address In Python

[Peter Hansen]

George Papamarkos wrote:
> 
>        Does anyone know if there is a way in Python to grab the MAC
> Address of a computer in a network knowing only its IP Address from a
> Linux machine ? Solutions using "arp" command etc. do not work
> properly. 

Don't work?  How so?  Perhaps there is a solution to this problem
which doesn't involve another approach.  I suggest this only because
I suspect there is no other approach, at least none you would call
"generic".

-Peter