arp?
You could ping the IP address and then run 'arp' to look at your arp cache to see if the MAC address was recorded.
Or depending on the number of hops you could ping and sniff the ping to look at the packet header information.
-Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Abdo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:09 AM
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> Subject: remote query of the MAC Address?
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> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a tool (linux or freeBSD) that can query a
> certain IP/DNS and get a MAC address. Is these such a thing?
>
> Thanks
>
> George
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