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June 04, 2012

ARP Scans - A Ping Alternative (by Tony Fortunato)

In some cases, I need to get a list of ip and mac addresses on my local subnet.

Sometimes its to help with my packet captures, or to correlate to an error log.

In this example, I used Colasofts' free MAC Scanner to scan my network and reviewed how it does it with Wireshark.

Enjoy

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