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How ID device from IP address?
Im interested to know what devices are on my LAN. I have several IPs that I cannot associate hardware devices for. For example, 192.168.0.18, is pingable, and I can see the MAC address for it. If I ...
In theory yes, in reality they sometimes get swept away. Often during a firmware update and certainly during a firmware default reset.
That is why you keep a list of MAC addresses and device names.
You can try looking up the mac address
https://dnschecker.org/mac-lookup.php
but it doesn't always work and some devices (like iOS devices) are using random mac addresses.
thats a good thought. The MAC gives me Expressif.inc, looks like a chip maker, which I see on a lot of devices. The router puts the device in a phone category and the only 2 phones on my network are already identified. Ill just have to physically find devices try to ID that way. THanks for the tip