LAN Network Discovery

Question

Hi I am looking at making an app in C# that is able to find all network devices on my LAN and get there current IP and MAC Address. I have multiple devices that can connect to the LAN. Multiple PC's Laptop WII XBox PSP NAS Phone Kindle. I would like the output like so: 192.168.1.1 : 00-0C-F1-56-98-AA 192.168.1.100 : 00-0C-F1-56-98-AB 192.168.1.101 : 00-0C-F1-56-98-AC 192.168.1.102 : 00-0C-F1-56-98-AD e.c.t. I started by trying to ping from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 to find the IP's which replied. The problem is that some of these devices dont seem to reply to ping and just timeout. Does anyone have any other suggestions on how I should proceed? Jay

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Yeah pinging is not likely to be the most useful solution. Try enumerating networks as in here . Actually you should search for articles in this web site; there are at least a hundred possibilities. The ones you want might not use the word enumerate but that should be the most common keyword to look for.