Arping is an ARP level ping utility. It's good for finding out if an IP is taken before you have routing to that subnet. It can also ping MAC addresses directly.
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This release adds much improved and portable interface autodetection. It replaces gettimeofday() with clock_gettime() where available. It has been changed back from poll() to select() to work around a bug in Mac OS X.
This release adds a -D option that show dots and exclamation marks. Old Arping 1.x code has been removed. The autoconf build system is used. The Solaris timing system has been fixed. Solaris auto-find outgoing interface has been added. This release will beep when there is no reply.
