Re: mac addr lookups?

[Matthew Franz <mdfranz () txdirect net>]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Terje Elde wrote:

> Just an idea for nmap...
>
> A lot of admins and other fun ppl use nmap to scan their own networks
> looking for security issues and other stuff. When you're scanning at your
> own physical network layer you can see MAC addr's. So why not add a option
> to allow nmap to look these up?

Arptool and hunt have this capability as well as many passive monitoring
tools such as ntop. 

-mdf
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