ARPing is a tool that can be used to send ARP requests and identify whether a host is alive and responding:
- The tool is used by simply passing an IP address as an argument to it:
- In the example provided, a single ARP request is sent to the broadcast address, requesting the physical location of the 172.16.36.135 IP address. As indicated by the output, a single reply was received by the host with the 00:0C:29:3D:84:32 MAC address. This tool can be more effectively used for layer 2 discovery scanning if a bash script is used to perform this action on multiple hosts simultaneously. In order to test the responses of each instance ...
