On 3/13/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:04 +0100, Michaël Hooreman wrote: > > For me, you can't get the IP address from the MAC address: the MAC is > > not related to the IP by any way. > > If your PC has had communications with the other, it will have > remembered both details and correlated them together. The arp command's > output will show you that. True that they're only related by > coincidence, but that's enough. > Thanks to all who replied. I used what you suggested, i.e broadcast and then match with arp. It worked. Thanks Dan