How can i ping a Computer or a Printer using its Mac address?

Suppose I have a printer in my network has a Mac Address : 11:22:33:44:55:66 .

Is there a way i can ping it to see if its up or down using its Mac address ?

Any Help ?

2 Answers

After some research i have succeeded in pinging my printer by its mac-address by following these steps using arping tool :

First I tried arping that is installed by default in Ubuntu 12.04 , it state unknown host whenever I ping a Mac Address .

I search for the problem and found that newer version of arping stopped this feature .

I search for an old version i found Thomas habets arping. Download It from Herer .

After Download extract it .

Before installation make sure you download libnet Here , and libcap-dev

sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev 

Now it time to install arping 2.13 , open Terminal :

cd /path/to/arpingfolder
./configure
make
make install

Now Navigate to :

cd /usr/local/sbin/

And run the following command :

arping -i (your network interface ) -c 3 11:22:33:44:55:66

For more options type man arping.

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It appears that current (in January 2020) releases of Debian Devuan, and Ubuntu carry two versions of arping in their repositories.

Current packages:

'arping' is the 'traditional' version maintained by Thomas Habets, currently v:2.19

apt-get install arping 

while 'iputils-arping' is the version which no longer supports MAC address pings.

apt-get install iputils-arping

As written by the package maintainers, installing one removes the other.

Just be aware that you may need to re-login after installation to avoid the command caching that some releases use... After installing I was getting '/usr/bin/arping: No such file or directory' until I re-logged in.

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