Arping
Arping is an ARP level ping utility. It's good for finding out if an IP is taken before you have routing to that subnet. It can also ping MAC addresses directly.
| Tags | Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD OpenBSD Linux Solaris Mac OS X Unix |
Recent releases
- 01 Apr 2010 22:22
Changes: This release adds a -D option that show dots and exclamation marks. Old Arping 1.x code has been removed. The autoconf build system is used. The Solaris timing system has been fixed. Solaris auto-find outgoing interface has been added. This release will beep when there is no reply.
- 14 Aug 2008 17:29
Changes: A regression has been fixed to allow compilation on BSD. There are no changes for non-BSD platforms.
- 08 Aug 2008 20:30
Changes: This release adds support for interface autodetection on BSD, and fixes a bug in interface autodetection on Linux.
- 13 Sep 2007 11:36
Changes: Timing-related fixes on BSD. More verbose help output on Windows.
- 28 Jan 2005 10:39
Changes: Quiet mode is now actually quiet.
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Recent commentsRe: Awesome!
> Its feature to map MAC addresses back to
> IP is quite
> useful. Unfortunately, that only works
> for machines which
> answer broadcast pings, i.e. not for
> windows machines :-(
Check out arping-scan-net.sh, included in arping. It
scans an IP network for a certain MAC address. It's only
needed for those that don't answer broadcast pings (also,
you can try the multicast IP 224.0.0.1), but when all else
fails, the script *will* find the box (unless it's actually
not answering ICMP pings).
Re: uhm.. iputils..
> You do realize that arping is already
> part of iputils..
As another comment has pointed out, that is a less capable arping, it's not the same program.
Arping exists in debian (though currently lagging on the 1.02 version) in the package arping.
The less capable arping from iputils is now in the package iputils-arping.
Re: Awesome!
Thats because you're running /sbin/arping (which is included with iputils) instead of the version you downloaded, compiled, and installed..
>
> % An awesome little program! Great
> for
> % debugging a handful of annoying
> network
> % problems...
>
>
> Agreed. This program is quite useful.
> Unfortunately, it conflicts with
> another less capable arping program.
>
> On one of my systems, I get this:
>
> # arping -V
> arping utility, iputils-ss001007
> #
>
> instead of
>
> # arping -v
> arping 0.95 [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -r ] [ -d
> ] [ -0 ] [ -c count ]
> [ -i <interface> ]
> <host/ip/MAC>
> #
>
uhm.. iputils..
You do realize that arping is already part of iputils.. If you make any significant changes/improvments you should get them included in the iputils package.
Re: Awesome!
> An awesome little program! Great for
> debugging a handful of annoying network
> problems...
Its feature to map MAC addresses back to IP is quite
useful. Unfortunately, that only works for machines which
answer broadcast pings, i.e. not for windows machines :-(