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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

get MAC address of target IP

Hi, I have already spent some days searching the information how to fetch the MAC address associated with an IP address. I am primarly an FPGA designer and unfortunately beginner with regard ...
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13 years ago

wikipedea isn't a bad bet for such information.

The ARP protocol is used to find the MAC address of a remote system. The software for a TCP/IP stack will usually contain ARP support.

If you need to assign a dynamic IP address to your own system you need dhcp.