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The Lounge War Stories What arp -s is good for Post 302720689 by Corona688 on Wednesday 24th of October 2012 01:47:36 PM
Old 10-24-2012
It is on the same subnet.

Theoretically yes, broadcast ping should work, but many common operating systems and hardware bridges block or ignore broadcast ping -- or any ping -- as a matter of course now.

I can see how it could get the pinger's MAC into other people's ARP tables, but can't see see how broadcast ping gets other MAC's into my ARP table when they don't reply.
 

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MACPING(1)						      General Commands Manual							MACPING(1)

NAME
macping - A tool for pinging other RouterOS or mactelnetd devices SYNOPSIS
mactelnet [options] <MAC-Address|hostname> DESCRIPTION
This tool enables you to ping other RouterOS or MAC-Telnetd enabled devices. You can ping either a hostname or a MAC address. If speci- fied, the hostname (identity) will be looked up via MNDP discovery. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax. A summary of options is included below. -f Fast mode, do not wait before sending next ping request. The next ping will be sent immediately when the last ping is received. This cannot be used with -c 0 -s Specify the amount of bytes to send in each ping packet, up to ~1400 bytes. -c Number of packets to send before exiting. A value of 0 means unlimited packets and the tool must be exited with Control + C. -h Show summary of options. -v Show version of program. SEE ALSO
mndp(1), mactelnet(1), mactelnetd(1). AUTHOR
macping was written by Hakon Nessjoen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Hakon Nessjoen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). February 27, 2011 MACPING(1)
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