I’d like to search for a given MAC address on my network, all from within a Python script. I already have a map of all the active IP addresses in the network but I cannot figure out how to glean the MAC address. Any ideas?
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I’d like to search for a given MAC address on my network, all from within a Python script. I already have a map of all the active IP addresses in the network but I cannot figure out how to glean the MAC address. Any ideas?
You need ARP. Python’s standard library doesn’t include any code for that, so you either need to call an external program (your OS may have an ‘arp’ utility) or you need to build the packets yourself (possibly with a tool like Scapy.