[Guessnet-devel] [svn] r145 - trunk

[Enrico Zini]

Author: enrico
Date: Tue Feb 14 21:18:05 2006
New Revision: 145

Modified:
   trunk/   (props changed)
   trunk/FAQ
Log:
 r7319 at viaza:  enrico | 2006-02-14 22:16:47 +0100
 Added FAQ entry ok looking up the MAC address of a remote machine


Modified: trunk/FAQ
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--- trunk/FAQ	(original)
+++ trunk/FAQ	Tue Feb 14 21:18:05 2006
@@ -69,6 +69,19 @@
 The main purpose of guessnet is integrating with ifupdown_, adding
 automatic network detection to a Debian system with very minimum changes.
 
+
+How do I get the MAC address of a remote machine?
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+Just use arping: ``arping [machine name]``.  arping can be found in debian as
+the package ``iputils-arping`` or ``arping``.
+
+Alternatively, if you don't have arping availbale, you can generate some
+traffic with the remote host (such as by pinging it) and then find its MAC
+address in the ARP cache using: ``/usr/sbin/arp -v`` which also works as a
+normal user.
+
+
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