On 24 Aug 2010 at 9:16, [email protected]  wrote:

> I am experiencing a bit of a network problem with, at the moment, is 
> more of an annoyance (but could easily get bigger!). Somewhere I have a 
> NIC spewing out gratuitious ARP packets. (I did eventually hunt it 
> down, but for the future...) 
> 
> Using Wireshark, I have the MAC address of the offending NIC. Again, 
> for the future, is there a ping command switch or something else which 
> will enable me to enter the MAC address and have the IP returned? 
> 
> Wireshark does indicate the offender is a Dell system. However, being 
> mostly a Dell shop, pinging each node here and then examining my ARP 
> cache is rather slow... 

Anygryziber's IPSCAN tool will return the IP address and MAC address of all 
stations in the scan range fairly quickly.  I use the older standalone v2 
version.


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