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Altera_Forum
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14 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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14 years ago

In which case you need to do one of:

1) hard configure the destination MAC address as well as the IP address.

2) save the MAC address associated with the IP address from some received packet.

3) use the ARP protocol and send out an ARP packet and parse the response.