Need some ideas to capture a bunch of mac addresses of devices that are
[unfortunately] disconnected from a network and powered off.
 
My only idea so far is to power them up (can only be done one at a time
- think 'assembly line'), connect them to another PC, do an ARP -a (or
script something to invoke it).  
 
Does the device that I am trying to capture the mac from need to have a
valid IP on the same network?  I see that when I do an arp -a on my
machine, it only shows devices that have an IP, and that are on my
subnet.  
 
I think the devices are set to DHCP, so if I had to I could specify on
nic on my machine to push out a lease, then do a arp -a?
 
Ideally, I would like to stick a cord in the device, have the mac
populated via script, rinse and repeat for each machine...
 
Ideas?  Thanks!
 
Sam
 
 
 

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