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how can we find the ethernet address of a machine , one hop away from my machine? for my machine i would say ip link show eth0 But for one ...
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    ethernet address of machine one hop away

    how can we find the ethernet address of a machine , one hop away from my machine?

    for my machine i would say

    ip link show eth0


    But for one hop away?? any idea?
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    If your workstation has communicated to another TCP/IP device ... an ARP entry will be created.
    You can view the ARP table:
    Code:
    $ arp -a
    ARP entries will expire.



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