Finding Hardware Address

[johnsef]

Can you find out the physical hardware address of a Spcific HP Printer that is already set up in SCO 5.0.5 with out having to go the physical printer??

johnsef

 

[MikeLacey]

you can probably pick it up with an snmp browser, or a perl script if you need to use the value in a shell script or something Mike
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[crowe]

could you not just ping the IP address and then grep out the device from the arp cache?

# ping ptr1.somewhere.com
# arp -a | grep ptr1.somewhere.com

crowe

 

[MikeLacey]

yep - that's nice and easy Mike
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[ElgisRamon]

You can [tt]nmap[/tt] your network, too.
I hope it works...
Unix was made by and for smart people.

 

[Guest_imported]

How to get the mac address of a host except running a system command "arp"? Besides, I want to get my host's mac address which is even not in "arp" cache. Thx.