finding remote MAC address

[Tom Buskey]

Michael O'Donnell wrote:

>Since all the machines in question are (apparently)
>destined to be DHCP clients of the server machine
>he's setting up, isn't it basically REQUIRED that
>they all be reachable without going through a router?
>
Nope.  DHCP relay is pretty common.

>Doesn't that just make the router issue go away?
>(Unless, as I suggested, he's considering something
>tricky like DHCP proxy...)
>

There's probably a way to get the arp table from the router.  Failing 
that, do the ping/arp thing on each side(s) of the router(s)