ARP Ping

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ARP Ping Tool Description

The ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) Ping tool uses ARP packets to 'ping' a single IPv4 device on your LAN (subnet or network segment). This tool forces responses from IPv4 devices even if the device uses firewalls or other stealthy methods to hide from standard ping sweep scanners. If you need to do an ARP Sweep over a range of IP addresses as a way of finding active devices, please see the ARP tool and have a look at the ARP scan function.

Capabilities:

Pings an IPv4 address with a broadcast MAC address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) ARP packet, then if an ARP response comes back, it continues to ping with a unicast ARP packet (unicast means destined for a specific MAC address). Response time is shown for each responding ARP ping.
Pings an IPv4 address with a broadcast MAC address ARP packet and continue to ping with a broadcast ARP packet targeted at that IPv4 address. Response time is shown for each responding ARP ping.
Searches for duplicate IPv4 addresses using broadcast ARP packets sent to a specific IPv4 address. All responding MAC addresses are shown.

About ARP:

ARP is a protocol which associates an IPv4 address with a MAC (Media Access Control) address (xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx) over an ethernet network segment. ARP is normally not routed beyond a network segment. This tool uses WinPcap to generate ARP packets. See also the ARP tool for additional ARP tools.

This tool requires a target IP address on the same network segment or subnet as your computer is currently using. Please note that this tool cannot 'ping' a MAC address and get an IP address back in return -- the ARP protocol does not work that way.

Windows Vista compatibility: Fully functional as of v10.42.

Screenshot

ARP Ping screenshot