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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 20 Apr 2012 16:22:10 James wrote: |
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>> Alex Schuster <wonko <at> wonkology.org> writes: |
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>> > How am I supposed to find the MAC address of an ethernet interface? |
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>> nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24 |
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>> might be of interest too, |
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>> ymmv, |
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>> James |
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> Hmmm ... current versions use -sn instead of -sP for no port scan. |
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> BTW, this would only work if you scan (as root) the target from another box. |
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> It will not reveal a MAC address if you scan localhost. |
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'localhost' resolves to either 127.0.0.1 or ::1, which is almost |
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invariably assigned to the 'lo' interface. |
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It *might* work if you ran it against a public IP of the machine |
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you're on. Depends on how much optimization there is in the network |
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stack, I suppose. |
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:wq |
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