arping(8)arping(8)NAMEarping - sends arp and/or ip pings to a given host
SYNOPSISarping [-0aAbBdDeFhpqrRuUv] [-S host/ip] [-T host/ip] [-s MAC] [-t
MAC] [-c count] [-i interface] [ -w us ] <host | -B>
arping--help
DESCRIPTION
The arping utility sends ARP and/or ICMP requests to the specified host
and displays the replies. The host may be specified by its hostname,
its IP address, or its MAC address.
One request is sent each second.
When pinging an IP an ARP who-has query is sent. When pinging a MAC
address a directed broadcast ICMP Echo request is sent. For more tech‐
nical explaination and an FAQ, see the README file.
Note on timing
ARP packets are usually replied to (on a LAN) so fast that the OS task
scheduler can’t keep up to get exact enough timing. On an idle system
the roundtrip times will be pretty much accurate, but with more load
the timing gets less exact.
To get more exact timing on a non-idle system, re-nice arping to -15 or
so.
# nice -n -15 arping foobar
This is not just an issue with arping, it is with normal ping also (at
least it is on my system). But it doesn’t show up as much with ping
since arping packets (when pinging IP) doesn’t traverse the IP stack
when received and are therefore replied to faster.
OPTIONS--help Show extended help. Not quite as extensive as this manpage, but
more than -h.
-0 Use this option to ping with source IP address 0.0.0.0. Use this
when you haven’t configured your interface yet. Note that this
may get the MAC-ping unanswered. This is an alias for -S
0.0.0.0.
-a Audible ping.
-A Only count addresses matching requested address (This *WILL*
break most things you do. Only useful if you are arpinging many
hosts at once. See arping-scan-net.sh for an example).
-b Like -0 but source broadcast source address (255.255.255.255).
Note that this may get the arping unanswered since it’s not nor‐
mal behavior for a host.
-B Use instead of host if you want to address 255.255.255.255.
-c count
Only send count requests.
-C count
Only wait for count replies, regardless of -c and -w.
-d Find duplicate replies. Exit with 1 if there are answers from
two different MAC addresses.
-D Display answers as exclamation points and missing packets as
dots. Like flood ping on a Cisco.
-e Like -a but beep when there is no reply.
-F Don’t try to be smart about the interface name. Even if this
switch is not given, -i disables this smartness.
-h Displays a help message and exits.
-i interface
Don’t guess, use the specified interface.
-m type
Type of timestamp to use for incoming packets. Use -vv when
pinging to list available ones.
-p Turn on promiscious mode on interface, use this if you don’t
"own" the MAC address you are using.
-P Send ARP replies instead of requests. Useful with -U.
-q Does not display messages, except error messages.
-r Raw output: only the MAC/IP address is displayed for each reply.
-R Raw output: Like -r but shows "the other one", can be combined
with -r.
-s MAC Set source MAC address. You may need to use -p with this.
-S IP Like -b and -0 but with set source address. Note that this may
get the arping unanswered if the target does not have routing to
the IP. If you don’t own the IP you are using, you may need to
turn on promiscious mode on the interface (with -p). With this
switch you can find out what IP-address a host has without tak‐
ing an IP-address yourself.
-t MAC Set target MAC address to use when pinging IP address.
-T IP Use -T as target address when pinging MACs that won’t respond to
a broadcast ping but perhaps to a directed broadcast.
Example:
To check the address of MAC-A, use knowledge of MAC-B and IP-B.
$ arping-S <IP-B> -s <MAC-B> -p <MAC-A>
-u Show index=received/sent instead of just index=received when
pinging MACs.
-U Send unsolicited ARP. This sets the destination MAC address in
the ARP frame to the broadcast address. Unsolicited ARP is used
to update the neighbours’ ARP caches.
Example:
$ arping-i <interface> -U <interface IP>
-v Verbose output. Use twice for more messages.
-w usec
Time to wait between pings, in microseconds.
-W sec Same as -w, but in floating point seconds.
EXAMPLES
# arping-c 3 88.1.180.225
ARPING 88.1.180.225
60 bytes from 00:11:85:4c:01:01 (88.1.180.225): index=0 time=13.910 msec
60 bytes from 00:11:85:4c:01:01 (88.1.180.225): index=1 time=13.935 msec
60 bytes from 00:11:85:4c:01:01 (88.1.180.225): index=2 time=13.944 msec
--- 88.1.180.225 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% unanswered
# arping-c 3 00:11:85:4c:01:01
ARPING 00:11:85:4c:01:01
60 bytes from 88.1.180.225 (00:11:85:4c:01:01): icmp_seq=0 time=13.367 msec
60 bytes from 88.1.180.225 (00:11:85:4c:01:01): icmp_seq=1 time=13.929 msec
60 bytes from 88.1.180.225 (00:11:85:4c:01:01): icmp_seq=2 time=13.929 msec
--- 00:11:85:4c:01:01 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% unanswered
# arping-C 2 -c 10 -r 88.1.180.225
00:11:85:4c:01:01
00:11:85:4c:01:01
BUGS
You have to use -B instead of arpinging 255.255.255.255, and -b instead
of -S 255.255.255.255. This is libnets fault.
SEE ALSOping(8), arp(8), rarp(8)AUTHOR
Arping was written by Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.se>.
http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/
git clone http://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping.git
arping 21th June, 2003 arping(8)
