<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/18/2005 11:44:43 AM:
> > Is it possible to obtain the Mac address of a remote host from a ping > > response? > > > If you are on the same subnet as the remote host, you can ping them and > then read your arp cache - arp -a on my Windows box. If you're going > across subnets, you have various options. Wmi, nbtstat -a are the two > that immediately spring to mind. > > Paul > That seems a roundabout way of getting the source MAC address. Net::Ping provides means to ping a host and can return the resolved IP address and round-trip time. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
