[TriLUG] finding a MAC address

Shane O. shaneodonnell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 14:31:44 EDT 2008


But the firewall is a BSD box, so tcpdump should do the same thing, without
the cabling and "other box" hassles...

Shane O.

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Shawn Taylor <shtaylor at gpi.com> wrote:

> If you stick a sniffer in-line, in front of the firewall, you should be
> able
> to see what is going on. It's a flat network you should be able to match up
> the IP address with the MAC with the destination IP and hopefully identify
> the node based on any other traffic contents in the packet data.
>
> Shawn
>
> Scott wrote:
>
> Doh - ethernet.  yes Mac is in Ethernet headers, but they dont go out to
> the
> other network.  So I am not getting your next sentence.
>
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