finding remote MAC address

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:09:58 EDT
"Derek Doucette" said:

>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?

Well, the first thing I would do is employ fping, then grab the MAC 
addrs from the arp table.  It's pretty simple actually.
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