Determine IP address assigned to MAC

When I am working in my home office, I like to use rdesktop (on Linux)
to connect to my Windows laptop. This gives me the big screen, full-
sized keyboard, etc., without springing for a docking station.

The problem (inconvenience) I have is that my Internet gateway (I refuse
to call them routers) can't be configured to assign a consistent IP
address to a particular MAC address. If, however, I could find a way to
scan my network for a particular MAC address and determine its IP
address, I could easily whip us a script to connect to the laptop
without manually determining its current IP address.

Anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks!

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