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prathibha
February 2nd, 2005, 02:15 AM
Hi ,

I have mac address with me . Is there a way to find out the IP address corresponding to this mac address?
Is there any API for that?
Please help me out ASAP.

Kdr Kane
February 2nd, 2005, 04:25 PM
You are asking for RARP (http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/rarp.htm) functionality.

Sorry, it's not available in Windows as far as I know. You can search these forums for "RARP" to verify.

RARP does come as a standard part of the TCP/IP protocol tools in Unix/Linux.