mac-scan

Scans a mac address on the local network, reporting if it is connected. Very useful to track if your iPhone is connected to your Wifi network.

Installation

map-scanrequires arp-scan to be installed. On Debian systems you can install this with:

$ sudo apt-get install arp-scan

map-scan can be run with sh, or directly if execute permissions are set:

$ sh map-scan
Usage: mac-scan <mac_address>

$ chmod uog+x map-scan
$ map-scan
Usage: mac-scan <mac_address>

Usage

$ map-scan
Usage: mac-scan <mac_address>

mac-scan scans the local network for the specified mac address, reports any IP address associated to it as well as if the targeted device responded.

Examples

With a responding device:

$ map-scan 05:c9:31:c8:d9:a7
05:c9:31:c8:d9:a7 responded 192.168.0.46 Intel Corporate

With a non responding device:

$ map-scan 05:c9:31:c8:d9:a7
05:c9:31:c8:d9:a7 noresponse 192.168.0.46

With an unknown device:

$ map-scan 05:c9:31:c8:d9:a1
05:c9:31:c8:d9:a1 noresponse

Tests

Tests are run with bats(https://github.com/sstephenson/bats).

Test coverage uses kcov (http://simonkagstrom.github.io/kcov/index.html). Note that the bagde at the top of this file reports a wrong coverage (should be 100%).