How do I ping a mac address in LAN? C++ windows

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I need to check if mac address is connected to local network. I think pinging it is the best option.

What I have tried:

Sending ARP request to all ips and then checking which is mac I'm looking for, but it's not so effective.

Posted 18-May-16 12:31pm

Cansisti

Updated 19-May-16 3:05am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-16 19:43pm

Please, your platform? Or do you want a cross-platform solution?
—SA

Cansisti 19-May-16 2:23am

Windows, as in topic (8.1)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-May-16 8:37am

Yes, thank you. I answered, but on "ping"; and only later noticed it was about MAC address.
—SA

Cansisti 19-May-16 9:45am

It's not strict about ping, I just thought ping is the best method to check if something is online

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-May-16 12:31pm

No, it has nothing to do with MAC address. You may need to search on "MAC address discovery". But why, I wonder?
—SA

barneyman 18-May-16 20:02pm

you might want to look at RARP

Cansisti 19-May-16 9:57am

I'm going to try it, thanks!

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2016-05-19T03:05:00

Probably your best bet is to retrieve all the MAC addresses on the LAN segment, and compare them manually.
That's not too difficult to do: Retrieving IP and MAC addresses for a LAN[^] shows how - it's in C# rather than C++, but it's all via calls to unmanaged methods, and as such should be simple to convert to C++.