arping

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Discover and probe hosts in a network using the ARP protocol. Useful for MAC address discovery.

Examples (6)

Ping a host by ARP request packets

arping host_ip

Ping a host on a specific [I]nterface

arping -I interface host_ip

Ping a host and [f]inish after the first reply

arping -f host_ip

Ping a host a specific number ([c]ount) of times

arping -c count host_ip

Broadcast ARP request packets to update neighbours' ARP caches ([U]nsolicited ARP mode)

arping -U ip_to_broadcast

[D]etect duplicated IP addresses in the network by sending ARP requests with a 3 second timeout

arping -D -w 3 ip_to_check