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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Charlie Schluting wrote:

> Olivier Nicole wrote:
>
>> ? (10.0.0.1) at 00:e0:29:ad:5a:aa on em0 [ethernet]
>> 
>> will do the trick, but it is a bit too heavy for the purpose, I'd
>> prefer a solution that only send an ARP request.
>> 
>
> If you just want to avoid the DNS lookup, you can use arp -an.
> Its much faster :)
>
> -Charlie

Also check out arping @ "/usr/ports/net/arping"


Best if luck,
 	--c0ldbyte