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Quickly checking mac addresses

Rather than ARP broadcasting and checking with arp -a are there any quicker ways to probe who is uses which MAC addresses on a LAN without causing the server to get much busier ?

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You can start service arpwatch after 2-3days you have a databse from all client

ip,mac ,computer name ,ethernet model

if any computer change any parameter you have mail

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mohamad_kian
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You can query your switch if it has that information:

snmptable -v2c -c public switch-address .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.ip.ipNetToMediaTable

Otherwise, there's no magic, you'll have to probe using nmap for instance, or watch all the traffic.

broadcast ping might work depending on the OS of the hosts and firewall settings as well.

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