And I heard Robert Mezzone exclaim: > I don't know much about Linux but under NT if you want to find the MAC > Address of a machine all you would have to do is ping it and then check the > arp table on the machine you ran the ping from. The arp address maps the IP > to MAC address. So in a sense it's very easy to figure out. > > Robert
This is the case on Linux as well, I think--but I was under the impression that it would only work if you were on the same subnet, or something like that. Which you presumably couldn't get onto unless you had the MAC address... Of course, I'm more than a little fuzzy on this stuff : ). --Daniel T.
