What about "arping"? It's like ping, but for ARP! of course this
necessitates being on the same network, since routers don't generally
forward ARP stuff.
- Marcel

On 9/11/06, peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
>
> > when using fixed ip, i can use ping to check if a computer is up and
> > running.
> > if i have dynamic ip, i cannot do this as i do not know the actual ip.
> > is there a way to do something like ping, but directly going to the mac
> > address instead of the ip?
> if your on the same lan then its probablly possible though i don't know of
> any tools built to do it. If your accessing over the internet then it is not
> as mac addresses are only local to the lan.
>
> others have suggested dynamic dns services and if you control the machine
> you wan't to keep an eye on and it has internet access then theese are
> probablly a good soloution.
>
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