[NCLUG] how to 'ping' a MAC address ?

Sun Jul 14 14:22:47 MDT 2002

On Thursday 04 July 2002 04:35 pm, John L. Bass wrote:

> Doesn't matter, from the original post he just needed a way to trace
> packets "TO" the machine with a given MAC address via the switch activity
> lights.

Pardon my igorance, but I'm confused now. I thought that MAC addressing only 
applied within a local segment of ethernet and would not be routed. So how 
would such activity even show up at the switch? Am I confusing a router with 
a switch? Is there a difference?

Marcio Luis Teixeira