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arping

All about Address Resolution Protocol (ARP - RFC826) and installing arping on MacOS.

Notes

The arping utility sends an ARP REQUEST to a neighbour host. The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP - RFC826) is used to discover the link layer address (i.e. MAC address) for a given internet layer address, typically an IPv4 address.

Installing on MacOS

arping is available for installation with homebrew

brew install arping

The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink sbin/arping
/usr/local/sbin is not writable.

You can try again using:
  brew link arping
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/arping/2.19: 6 files, 76KB
/usr/local/Cellar/arping/2.19/sbin/arping

Note that it wasn’t able to link the binary in /usr/local/sbin

This is usually solved by ensuring the directory exists and set permissions:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/sbin
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/sbin

Then links correctly:

$ brew link arping
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/arping/2.19... 2 symlinks created
$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin
$ which arping
/usr/local/sbin/arping

Test Drive

$ arping -I en0 -c 2 192.168.0.14
ARPING 192.168.0.14
42 bytes from 48:5a:3f:6f:6a:80 (192.168.0.14): index=0 time=184.923 msec
42 bytes from 48:5a:3f:6f:6a:80 (192.168.0.14): index=1 time=102.294 msec

--- 192.168.0.14 statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received,   0% unanswered (0 extra)
rtt min/avg/max/std-dev = 102.294/143.608/184.923/41.314 ms

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