finding remote MAC address

[Tom Buskey]

Derek Doucette wrote:

>I need to write a script that will take in a list of IP's, and from that
>list find the mac address for these IP's so we can make our move over to
>dhcp.  I think this would be pretty easy to do in perl, but I'm not sure
>of how to find the mac address of a remote device. Any ideas or existing
>solutions anyone knows about?
>
>Derek Doucette
>http://derek.homeunix.org
>  
>
As an initial stab (local subnet only):
    ping IP
    arp -a to view the arp table which will have mac/ip in it.