want to rarp, but need help!

[Uncle Jim]

Mike,

Try "arp -a" and look through the list.  The data has a short life so if
you don't find it you may need to do something ugly like pinging a broadcast
address.

> Got a question for the networking gurus out there.  Using only linux 2.2.x
> and the utils that come with it, if I have a MAC address and nothing else,
> how can I find out what IP address (if any) that MAC is associated with?
> Currently I can do this by looking in our router, but that's slow and cumbersome
> I don't want to ping everything to build up the arp table either.
> I need a utility that will do request the IP from the MAC address.  Any
> takers?
--
Jim