Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-24 Thread Renaud Waldura
- From: "C. Stephen Gunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Renaud Waldura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: Re: How to send arp request with no oth

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-24 Thread C. Stephen Gunn
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:32:41PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > send a hand crafted arp packet out through the nergraph > hook on the interface and let the response be put in the table. This is a side-effect of the ARP packet processing mechanism described in STD-0037. All inbound ARP packet

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-24 Thread C. Stephen Gunn
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:40:14PM -0800, Renaud Waldura wrote: > An amusing trick to populate the ARP table is to ping the broadcast address. > Even if hosts do not reply to your ping packet (typically, Windows > machines), they are entered in the ARP table. > > You still have to send a single

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Renaud Waldura
nt: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:47 PM Subject: Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic > Actually answer to original question is here: > > http://synscan.nss.nu/programs.php > > I am not sure if it works on fbsd, last time I looked at it, it had a few > linuxisms hardco

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Alex Pilosov
Actually answer to original question is here: http://synscan.nss.nu/programs.php I am not sure if it works on fbsd, last time I looked at it, it had a few linuxisms hardcoded... -alex On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Renaud Waldura wrote: > An amusing trick to populate the ARP table is to ping the broadc

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Renaud Waldura
An amusing trick to populate the ARP table is to ping the broadcast address. Even if hosts do not reply to your ping packet (typically, Windows machines), they are entered in the ARP table. You still have to send a single packet, but it does all the work. --Renaud To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Julian Elischer
Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > > Hi, > > > You've asked two different questions here, with differing answers: > > > > 1) How to do an arp resolution without sending traffic to the IP, and > > 2) Is it possible to do it all in one command. > > > > The answer to 2) is: of course. > > Thanks for the

RE: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick Bihan-Faou
Hi, > You've asked two different questions here, with differing answers: > > 1) How to do an arp resolution without sending traffic to the IP, and > 2) Is it possible to do it all in one command. > > The answer to 2) is: of course. Thanks for the nice explanation of the arp mechanism. This was

Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
You've asked two different questions here, with differing answers: 1) How to do an arp resolution without sending traffic to the IP, and 2) Is it possible to do it all in one command. The answer to 2) is: of course. The answer to 1) goes something like this: arp doesn't send traffic to the IP.

How to send arp request with no other traffic

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick Bihan-Faou
Hi, How could I perform a arp resolution without attempting to send traffic to the IP address I am looking up ? To rephrase my question, if I use arp(8), to obtain the mac address associated with a specific IP address and that information is not yet in the arp cache, arp(8) returns: bash-2.03$