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On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:53:53PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> Is there some scriptable method, using binaries present in the base system,
> to check for the presence of some known other device by its MAC address
> on an ethernet before assigning an IP address to the local interface?

Not base, but net/arping springs pretty immediately to mind.

You could probably knock up something similar with ipsend/ipresend and
tcpdump.

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Dan.

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