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		brirec on Aug 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network us... This is interesting to me for basically the same reason — being able to send and receive ARP messages with arbitrary payloads would definitely make troubleshooting VLANs (and other L2 connectivity) easier!

jandrese on Aug 9, 2023 [–]

Check out arping[1].

But it is easy to send out arbitrary ARP requests using almost anything and watch them with Wireshark.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/arping.8.html

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