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Lets say I have multiple cisco switches that are all on the same VLAN.

The question is:

If I do "arp -a" on a pc that is connected to one of the switches.

Do I get the Ip and Mac addresses of all the pcs on the vlan, or do I get the arp table that is only on the switch that I am connected to?

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No you would get only what is in the local arp cache for that PC, which would basically be any other device on the same subnet that the PC has contacted.

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  • ok, so is there a way to get the mac addresses(AND IPS) of all the pcs on the vlan?
    – Lee
    Sep 30, 2013 at 15:16
  • nmap (filler words)
    – Gregg Leventhal
    Sep 30, 2013 at 15:16
  • For example if you are on 192.168.1.0/24 you could do nmap -sP 192.168.1.0-255
    – Gregg Leventhal
    Sep 30, 2013 at 15:20
  • Thanks, I will look on to it.. But I need to develop it myself. Do you know how they are doing it? It seems by your example that they are just scanning all the ips in the subnet.
    – Lee
    Sep 30, 2013 at 15:25
  • Yes, that's right. If you want to develop it yourself, you could just loop through a range of ips and ping them, then retrieve the MAC address from your arp cache if you are on the same subnet.
    – Gregg Leventhal
    Sep 30, 2013 at 15:48

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