How can I find all the mac address on a LAN?
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How can I find all the mac address on a LAN?
What is the best way to find the mac address of all the computers on a LAN? And if possible can I have the code in vb.net?
ASKED: Aug 17 2009  6:47 PM GMT
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Finding all available MAC addresses on your network can be a tedious task, especially if your clients are running firewall software that blocks requested initiated from other hosts. Despite that, a quick and easy search on Google.com, e.g 'LAN MAC address scanner' will reveal a number of software products that you can use to achieve your desired result.

Other sources from which you can learn your network's MAC addresses are your switches. If they are managed switches, chances are you can lookup their MAC-Address table. Cisco switches are excellent resources for such tasks as with a single command, they can provide a lot of information.

Another option is your network's gateway. If your router doesn't provide such information, you can stick a hub on it and with a laptop computer loaded with packet sniffing software record all packets that enter and exit your gateway.

Hope that helped!.

Chris Partsenidis.




Previous Memeber's Answer:

Get the Windows Administrator's Automation Toolkit book (ISBN 0-7356-2166-7) It has this process as well as many others that might be of interest to you.

The system ARP table will have the MAC address if the device is on the same subnet and has communicated recently with your computer. To get the contents of your local machine's arp table: arp -a at a command prompt.

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As an alternative, if you have advanced switching, go to the switch and find the command to display the mac table. For example, on HP and Cisco switches, sh mac-address will give you all the MACs the switch knows
Last Answered: Sep 20 2009  8:17 PM GMT by CPartsenidis   180 pts.
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Chippy088   330 pts.  |   Sep 21 2009  8:05PM GMT

Try a google search.

I have done this on our domain, as we were logging a new forest that has come onto our AD network.

I have been doing it in vb script, but there are many sites out there that give help, and have routines written in <a href="http://vb.net" title="http://vb. " target="_blank">vb.net</a>.

 

Network Associate   10 pts.  |   Sep 21 2009  8:19PM GMT

I have used SIW (System Information for Windows) which is a very helpful and extremely easy tool to use. As some of the other comments have mentioned, you have to be on the same network for it to find all clients and servers. You can also export the information into a nice HTML file! The free version has limited functionality but I think you will like what you get.

 
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