>> The main function of a switch is to keep irrelevant packets away from
>> hosts, but packets to unknown (to the switch) hosts get sent
>> everywhere, just like a Hub would do.
>>
>
>yes - thanks all, it appears its a cross network 'issue'
>
>thanks
If you're trying to get a MAC address across
> This will only work on a local network:
> once you have the IP address, you can do an arp -v
>
> You cannot get the MAC address of a routed IP address, it only exist
on a
> local network.
Heres the code snippet I've used to walk a router's MAC table:
snmpwalk -v 1 -c public ${GWADDR} ipNetToM
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