[techtalk] Ether-Address and IP-Address

[Bilal Muddassir]

You mean the MS Word's GUID contains the MAC address?
If yes, does it get replaced by some other stuff if you are on a modem?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobtfish" <bobtfish at freaks.screaming.net>
To: "LinuxChix technical discussion list" <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Ether-Address and IP-Address


> At 09:29 13/04/00 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> >is there a programm, which can I use to find the IP-Address
> >to a specified Ether-Address (network card) ???
> 
> If the computer is on the local network then on linux you can say cat < 
> /proc/net/arp | less and look for the IP address. I believe you can do 
> something similar with a program called arp on windows.
> 
> However if the machine is through a router then you are stuffed..
> (Unless you can get the user to send you an MSWord document as they have 
> the hardware address embedded in the doc..
> Scary eh?
> 
> BobTFish
> 
> 
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