Send an ARP request manually from Windows

Question

I'm training myself on network scanning and i'm focusing on how to identify a sniffer on my net. Searching on the web, i find that a possible way is the ARP method: i must send an ARP request to a suspect no broadcast IP to check if it's in promiscuous mode.

My doubt is: if my pc is a Windows 7 machine, is there a way to send manually an ARP resuest? Possibly from command line?

Spatter

Answer 1

You can use tools like nmap.

nmap -sP -PR <IP address/subnet>

For windows you can use the GUI version of nmap - zenmap.

Satyriasis

Answer 2

You can use this version of arping for Windows. If you want an already compiled executable you can find it Here (under the "examples" folder).

Usage:

Arping.exe -i <IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_INTERFACE> -T <TARGET_IP_ADDRESS>

Cattalo

Answer 3

another simple way:

• ping TARGET_IP_ADDRESS

then

• arp -a

the TARGET_IP_ADDRESS shall be shown as type dynamic.

Tetra

This doesn't work on Windows 10. Another thread mentioned it works on Windows 7. – Dekker