Remote mac address

[Frank Stutzman]

Matias Surdi <matiassurdi at gmail.com> 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.


What kind of system?

On linux and probably several other unix-like systems you could (if 
you had permission) parse the /proc/net/arp file.  Granted this isn't
terribly far off from parsing the output of 'arp -a', but at least
it keeps you from spawning a shell to run the 'arp -a' in.


-- 
Frank Stutzman