Nmap Development: RE: scan based on mac address

[Aaron Leininger <rilian4 () hotmail com>]

I don't think it is possible...however, if the target computer is within your home network or corporate network *AND* 
is running windows, you can  run
a netbios scan (one tool that can do this is nbtscan: http://www.inetcat.net/software/nbtscan.html) very quickly across 
your whole network and dump 
the results to a text file and search the text file for your MAC address (or use grep to filter if you are running the 
scan from a unix type machine). Then run an nmap scan of your choice against the IP address that matches your search. 
Note: A netbios scan will find unix (linux, bsd, OSX, etc) machines that are running the windows file sharing 
protocol(Samba) as well but they (wisely, IMO) do not broadcast their MAC address in response to this scan. Only true 
windows machines or Windows Virtual Machines will return their mac address in this manner. 

You can run an nmap scan on your whole subnet and usually get the MAC addresses back for the entire subnet but you 
can't get them back outside your subnet
with nmap otherwise. 

I am by no means the most experienced person on this list. Hopefully others may chime in with some further suggestions 
or refinements
Aaron


> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:30:27 +0300
> From: sara.fink () gmail com
> To: nmap-dev () insecure org
> Subject: scan based on mac address
>
> Is it possible to perform a scan based on mac address only? I don't have the
> ip.
>
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