How to find the ip of a mac-address

[Dan Track]

On 4/4/06, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Daniel Challen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:40 +0000, Dan Track wrote:
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I've got the mac-address of desktop. But I don't know it's IP, are
> >>there any tools that I can use to find this IP.
> >
> >
> > Presuming you're on the same LAN, and the desktop is not running Windows
> > (which does not respond to the broadcast address):
>
> Linux can be configured to not repond to broadcast pings, and windows
> can be configured to respond to the,;-\
>
> >   ping -b 192.168.0.255      (substitute with your broadcast address)
> >   /sbin/arp -a | grep 00:10:00:FF:FF:FF               (substitute with the MAC
> > address of the desktop)
> >
> > Failing that, you can watch network traffic and hope the desktop machine
> > generates some traffic:
> >   tcpdump -v ether host 00:10:00:FF:FF:FF
>
> If you're using DHCP, then check the DHCP server's logs.
>
> You can also use a shell script (or a small series of commands) to ping
> all likely addresses (google should find some sample bash scripts for
> you) and see what arp says.
>
> nmap also has the ability to ping a range of IP addresses, and scanning
> your local LAN for http servers would be quick (but less educational
> than the scripting approach) and create the needed ARP entries.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
Hi All

Thanks everyone for all your replies.

It's been a real eye opener. I managed to find the ip using the
suggested techniques.

Thanks again
Dan