Re: Ping a mac address

From: Samuel R. Baskinger (sbaskinger@lumeta.com)
Date: Thu Dec 08 2005 - 16:10:14 EST


What about arp poisoning? Inject arps saying that some IP on network A
at some MAC and then rarp for that information on network B.

I have not experimented with this and am not sure how multihomed hosts
would behave. Can someone clarify?

Sam

Brian Loe wrote:

>It would have to have two NICs, would it not? How else could it be on
>both networks?
>
>My question is, how do you *ping* a MAC address?
>
>On 12/6/05, Joachim Schipper <j.schipper@math.uu.nl> wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:57:49PM +0200, Roni Bachar wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"That's why I was asking "why?" It depends on what he's ultimately going to
>>>
>>>do and what"
>>>
>>>I am testing two separated networks one is a big 4 A class network and one
>>>is a small c class. I would like to see that no machine is connected to the
>>>C class and to the A class at the same time.
>>>
>>>Some pre-information: I don't have access to the DHCP server nor to the
>>>switches and I am not Administrator of the network.
>>>
>>>I thought the best way is to scan the class c get all the mac and then
>>>connect to the A class and find a way to see if this mac's exist on it or
>>>not.
>>>
>>>p.s I know that I can scan both network with varies of tools and compare the
>>>mac's but I rather not do it this way.
>>>
>>>My goal is to find out other ways to see that the mac isn't connected to
>>>Both networks.
>>>
>>>
>>You *are* aware that this whole check-with-MAC thing only works if you
>>presuppose that no single host has more than a single NIC?
>>
>> Joachim
>>
>>
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