arping
Discover and probe hosts in a network using the ARP protocol. Useful for MAC address discovery. More information: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping.
- Ping a host by ARP request packets:
arping
host_ip
- Ping a host on a specific interface:
arping -I
interface
host_ip
- Ping a host and [f]inish after the first reply:
arping -f
host_ip
- Ping a host a specific number ([c]ount) of times:
arping -c
count
host_ip
- Broadcast ARP request packets to update neighbours' ARP caches ([U]nsolicited ARP mode):
arping -U
ip_to_broadcast
- [D]etect duplicated IP addresses in the network by sending ARP requests with a 3 second timeout:
arping -D -w
3
ip_to_check