How to resolve IP address to MAC hardware address in Windows

Last Modified: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:01:54 +0000 ; Created: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:01:54 +0000

I use this command from time to time on my Windows XP box and wanted to document it for reference.

ping www.xxx.yyy.zzz   (to get the entry in the arp cache)
arp -a www.xxx.yyy.zzz

Note that your ARP cache will probably only be for your subnet that the machine is on.