Please follow these instructions to successfully ping a network MAC access. MAC Address means Media Access Control Address. The MAC address is an identifier for computer network hardware. It is a unique identifier set by the manufacturer and is permanently set into the hardware equipment. This identifier helps network communicate with each other. You can find MAC address on the following devices:
Today's questions is regarding networking. the question is:
"is it possible to ping a device using only the mac address of the machine? or what tools I can use to check if a device is connected to the network"
ANSWER: the answer is no. IP Address is layer 3 of the OSI Model, and the MAC Address belongs to Layer 2
However, there is a way for example, if I have a network printer connected to my LAN but I can't ping it. the printer may be in your network and you probably are just pinging the wrong ip address for that printer. so how do you find the correct ip address? this is what I would do
Go to the printer, usually devices will have the MAC ADDRESS printed on the back, so for example, lets say my printer has this MAC ADDRESS:
01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa
So what I can do is run the arp command. to run the arp utility, open your command terminal. I am using windows 7 for this tutorial, so I will use windows DOS terminal.
ARP COMMAND:
It will give you a list of all the devices recorded in your computer:
This is the output on my computer:
C:\Users\MYPC>arp -a Interface: 192.168.0.2 --- 0xe Internet Address Physical Address Type 192.168.0.1 02-00-00-00-00-00 dynamic 192.168.0.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static 224.0.0.22 01-00-5e-00-00-16 static 224.0.0.252 01-00-5e-00-00-fc static 239.255.255.250 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa static 255.255.255.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static Interface: 192.168.56.1 --- 0x12 Internet Address Physical Address Type 192.168.56.255 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa static 224.0.0.22 01-00-5e-00-00-16 static 224.0.0.252 01-00-5e-00-00-fc static 239.255.255.250 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static
As you can see from the list, the device with 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa is IP ADDRESS 192.168.56.1 so I can ping that device now.
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