How To Ping By MAC Address? Ping Command Prompt

this article will demonstrate how you can ping a network device if you only have the MAC address of the hardware you are trying to ping without an IP address on the network using the most common tool in windows the DOS command prompt and in linux shell [3490], Last Updated: Mon Jun 24, 2024

Webune Support

Mon Jan 11, 2010

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Please follow these instructions to successfully ping a network MAC access. MAC Address means Media Access Control Address. The MAC address is an identifier for computer network hardware. It is a unique identifier set by the manufacturer and is permanently set into the hardware equipment. This identifier helps network communicate with each other. You can find MAC address on the following devices:

Computers
Smart Phones
Enterprise Servers
Industrial Equipment
Internet Of Things
WIFI

Today's questions is regarding networking. the question is:

"is it possible to ping a device using only the mac address of the machine? or what tools I can use to check if a device is connected to the network"

ANSWER: the answer is no. IP Address is layer 3 of the OSI Model, and the MAC Address belongs to Layer 2

However, there is a way for example, if I have a network printer connected to my LAN but I can't ping it. the printer may be in your network and you probably are just pinging the wrong ip address for that printer. so how do you find the correct ip address? this is what I would do

Go to the printer, usually devices will have the MAC ADDRESS printed on the back, so for example, lets say my printer has this MAC ADDRESS:

01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa

So what I can do is run the arp command. to run the arp utility, open your command terminal. I am using windows 7 for this tutorial, so I will use windows DOS terminal.

ARP COMMAND:

arp -a

It will give you a list of all the devices recorded in your computer:

This is the output on my computer:

C:\Users\MYPC>arp -a

Interface: 192.168.0.2 --- 0xe
  Internet Address      Physical Address      Type
  192.168.0.1           02-00-00-00-00-00     dynamic
  192.168.0.255         ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff     static
  224.0.0.22            01-00-5e-00-00-16     static
  224.0.0.252           01-00-5e-00-00-fc     static
  239.255.255.250       01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa     static
  255.255.255.255       ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff     static

Interface: 192.168.56.1 --- 0x12
  Internet Address      Physical Address      Type
  192.168.56.255        01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa     static
  224.0.0.22            01-00-5e-00-00-16     static
  224.0.0.252           01-00-5e-00-00-fc     static
  239.255.255.250       ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff     static

As you can see from the list, the device with 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa is IP ADDRESS 192.168.56.1 so I can ping that device now.

MAC Address Quiz

Now that you know what a MAC address is and how you can ping. Are you ready for a quick quiz?

Command To Ping The Mac Address

Mike

Fri Jul 22, 2011

this answer is wrong. you def can ping by mac address usin ssh.

dylan

Wed Apr 04, 2018

how? doesn't help to just say you can do it?

ajlos

Wed Jul 25, 2012

damm, that did not work for me :(

webune

Mon Jan 11, 2010

here's another trick

lets say you know the mac address for your device, you can bind that mac address an ip on your computer so when you ping the ip, it will look for that mac address

so lets say i have a printer with a mac address of: 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa

open your DOS terminal and send this command
DOS COMMAND:

arp -s 192.168.1.120 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa

now try pinging 192.168.1.120 - it will look for that device with that mac address we just assigned

https://www.webune.com/forums/how-to-ping-by-mac-address.html

rick (United States)

Tue Apr 23, 2024

the following powershell command should return the ip address, among other things replace ☎ * * * * * * * * * * * * with the mac address you want to find:

getneighbor linklayeraddress ☎ * * * * * * * * * * * *

kenobi208 (Netherlands)

Wed Jul 07, 2021

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