Remote mac address

[Huzaifa Sidhpurwala]

Michael Stro"der wrote:
> Matias Surdi wrote:
>   
>> Anyone knows how  having the IP address of a host on the lan could I get 
>> the mac address of that hosr?
>>
>> p/d: Parsing the output of arp -a  is not an option.
>>     
>
>   
Any reason why arp is not an option?
> But the ARP table is exactly what you need to access. This is probably 
> system-specific.
>
> You could also try to send ARP requests yourself:
> http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-pythocli/
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>