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