arping Command Examples

Discover and probe hosts in a network using the ARP protocol. Useful for MAC address discovery. More information: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping.

• Ping a host by ARP request packets:

arping {{host_ip}}

• Ping a host on a specific interface:

arping -I {{interface}} {{host_ip}}

• Ping a host and [f]inish after the first reply:

arping -f {{host_ip}}

• Ping a host a specific number ([c]ount) of times:

arping -c {{count}} {{host_ip}}

• Broadcast ARP request packets to update neighbours' ARP caches ([U]nsolicited ARP mode):

arping -U {{ip_to_broadcast}}

• [D]etect duplicated IP addresses in the network by sending ARP requests with a 3 second timeout:

arping -D -w {{3}} {{ip_to_check}}