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Then look in your arp cache for the corresponding machine arp -an. Here are a couple of methods for doing the reverse lookup of MAC to IP.

Unicast reply from 192.168.1.1 1.216msĪrping works similarly to ping except instead of sending ICMP packets, it sends ARP packets. The other version (Thomas Habets') supposedly can query using MAC addresses.

There are 2 versions of it, the standard one included with most Unixes (Alexey Kuznetsov's) is the version that can only deal with IP addresses. You still need to know the IP of the system however with this tool. The tool ping works at the layer 3 level of the OSI model, whereas arping works at layer 2. I am using windows 7 for this tutorial, so I will use windows DOS terminal.You might have better luck using the tool arping instead. to run the arp utility, open your command terminal. Go to the printer, usually devices will have the MAC ADDRESS printed on the back, so for example, lets say my printer has this MAC ADDRESS: so how do you find the correct ip address? this is what I would do the printer may be in your network and you probably are just pinging the wrong ip address for that printer. However, there is a way for example, if I have a network printer connected to my LAN but I can't ping it. IP Address is layer 3 of the OSI Model, and the MAC Address belongs to Layer 2 "is it possible to ping a device using only the mac address of the machine? or what tools I can use to check if a device is connected to the network"ĪNSWER: the answer is no. Today's questions is regarding networking. You can find MAC address on the following devices: This identifier helps network communicate with each other. It is a unique identifier set by the manufacturer and is permanently set into the hardware equipment. The MAC address is an identifier for computer network hardware. MAC Address means Media Access Control Address.

Please follow these instructions to successfully ping a network MAC access.