Communications :: Find Device On Network By Its Mac Address?
Feb 6, 2009
I have a small embedded web server and to setup its network parameters I use a serial port, however this is giving me a lot of trouble due to USB to serial adapters (in some computers work in other doesn't).
However the other day I saw that Buffalo has a little program to find their NAS boxes (or network drives) when you don't know their IP address or got the wrong one so I assume they do it by looking for mac addresses.Is there any way of doing this with VB 2005 or higher? Basically I don't know the IP of the embedded server so I need to find it on a network, how do I find it?
a) I could do a general IP scan assuming it is on the same subnet than the host computer
b) if it has a different subnet... a general IP scan is not going to work, is it?
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Mar 17, 2009
I whould like to find the IP address of a game server that sends UDP packets to my PC. Of this server I know the fixed Port number, but not the IP address
I can read the netstat -anp udp data and store them in a text file... but this command don't displais the IP Address and the Port number of the external servers, only lots of asterisks
the question is: how to retrieve this IP address?
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Apr 1, 2011
Using the code below i will get all network interfaces wich are enabled and functional on the machine.
Private netIntrfc As NetworkInterface() = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()
For i As Integer = 0 To netIntrfc.Length - 1
If netIntrfc(i).OperationalStatus = OperationalStatus.Up Then
[code]....
But my problem is how to get the default one, the one(ethernet adapter) through wich user is connected to internet?I need to change some settings of default(through wich user is connected to internet) adapter. settings i change through registry so i could sample add same settings for each network interface but that could cause problems and makes no point then?
EDITED:for now i have done like code below, so if this can help someone other...
Dim u As UdpClient = New UdpClient(System.Net.Dns.GetHostName, 1)
Dim localAddr As IPAddress = CType(u.Client.LocalEndPoint, IPEndPoint).Address
Private netIntrfc As NetworkInterface() = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()
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Jul 26, 2011
I have a .net network application , and as part of improving the performance of the software i would like to find the shortest route to the server . When i have more than one network , i need to find the local network ip from these current ip list .
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Jul 6, 2011
Are there any IP Address filters or masks available in Windows Forms as per following screenshot? A backslash shouldn't be allowed or it should be filtered somehow.
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Aug 11, 2009
SocketException was Unhandled: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted I get this error every time i click collect a second time.
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Mar 8, 2009
Can anyone point me to some code which can help obtain the network address from the host IP and subnet mask?
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May 23, 2011
I am using visual studio 2008 professional.i am trying to deploy a simple hello world application to a hand held device.
i currently have the device connected via usb, i can run the app through vb and it deploys and runs on the device however i don't know how to create the install and install it on the device so it can run independent.
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Oct 1, 2009
There seems to be a lot of discussion around about handling exeptions when a USB serial port device gets unplugged. What I want to know is how can one re-attach to it once it is plugged back in. The problem is that if you unplug a USB serial port device the app doesn't know it has gone and remains convinced it is still open. I have to close the app completely before I can re-attach to the device. I need a way to force it to close/go away.
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May 16, 2011
I know how to open a communications port and read data from a wired usb device.
How can I open a communications port to read data from a wireless bluetooth device?
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Aug 5, 2009
Is there any easy way to determine the IP address for the computer that an app is running on. I looked through the System.Net namespace and didn't see anything of the sort.
Basically, I want to display the IP address to the user, instead of walking them through how to do an "ipconfig". They then can put that IP address into another app, so the one app can talk to the other via UDP.
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Jul 11, 2011
I am trying to make a simple port scanner to scan a rang of IP's so like 192.168.4.245 to 192.168.5.100. I am using Visual Basic.Net 2010 and am having trouble converting the IP from a String to a Long so that I can increment it and convert it back to a String. For some reason VB.Net 2010 doesn't include the winsock controller and therefore I am having problems finding a method that works similar to inet_addr() which makes conversion much easier. I found an example on one of the forms here
Code:
Private Sub Command1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Command1.Click
[code]....
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Jul 14, 2008
I'm running into a problem with this code:
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The problem is that I'm running on Windows Vista and the above code seems to want to return the IP V6 information and not the V4 information. How can I force it to return the V4 information?
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Apr 12, 2010
I am trying to write a quick utility that will find out if a Windows XP computer is set to Static or DHCP and write a log file c:computername_static.log or c:computername_dhcp.log.
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Jul 31, 2008
I would like to know how is it possible to send data over the network using VB 2005 .... ! It must be capable of being the type of sending short text over the network just like chatting
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Apr 8, 2010
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Anyone know why, Every time I try calling something with this PhysicalAddress it says Null Exception, and the debug always displays nothing inside the Var's, Is this a bug or something? Im using Framework 2.0 >:O
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May 24, 2009
c# I want to display the bluetooth IP address of the smart phone or pda device that my software is on when a button is pressed in a message box.
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Sep 3, 2010
I am writing a network diagramming application with SNMP autodiscovery. I can query SNMP devices but I need to be able to differentiate between laptops, servers, and workstations. The only response I recieve is cpu information, os version, and the cpu stepping. Any idea on how to get the type of a remote network device? This might be more a networking question.
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Apr 12, 2010
Is there a way to ping an IP address from VB.NET and store the response times?
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Oct 8, 2008
I am playing with network sockets as I need to work on a client-server application. So I have tried this simple code from VS help:
Code:
Dim tcpClient As New TcpClient()
'The following line do not belongs to original code 'But I needed to add it as debugger told me that 'I couldnt getStream from closed sockets
tcpClient.Connect("127.0.0.1", 8000)
Dim netStream As NetworkStream = tcpClient.GetStream()
If netStream.CanWrite Then
[code]....
So, I supposed that the code above would write the message to the loopback IP (127.0.0.1), it would be kept in the network buffer and would be spited out when it readed the same loopback IP. However, when it gets the line whre it should read the stream, the program just stalls and keep reading it forever. I have tested the stream with as if it was just awaiting for something to read. I have tested the stream with getStream.DataAvailable and it returned me False, what makes me guess that the data is NOT being properly written to the IP.
Firstly I thought that it could be something with the loopback IP, then I tried to provide the machine local IP (192.168.2.25) but I got the same behavior: code stalls...
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Jul 29, 2008
At my workplace I have been developing a server/client application which receives on port 8000 and sends on 8001. We do not have any other applications that use these ports, but we do have an application that accesses an SQL database in which part data is stored.
When I am doing testing on the application, if the server were to crash while the client app was sending a packet, could this lost packet cause issues with the network at all?I ask because for some reason we have been receiving connection timeout errors from the application that stores our product data, but we haven't made any changes or started running any new jobs on the network that I am aware of.
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Oct 29, 2009
I'm trying to figure out, how I could access a webcam on another computer withing our network. It could be P2P as well.
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Jul 4, 2008
I am trying to write a program to ping computers on my network to see if they are turned on. So far i have the following:
Code:
If My.Computer.Network.Ping("192.68.0.5") Then
MsgBox("Computer is on.")
Else
MsgBox("Ping request timed out.")
End If
If i use ip addresses, this works fine but i would rather use hostnames due to the ip addresses being dynamic (something which is outside my control). Using the hostname, it reurns "Computer is on" if the ping is successful, but if the hostname cannot be found, instead on returning "Ping request timed out", an error occurs as follows:
A first chance exception of type 'System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingException' occurred in System.dll
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Aug 25, 2009
I am developing an application which can connect to an ip address to transfer/receive data to the handheld device via gprs network.
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Aug 14, 2009
How can I get the Network Card Address using VB.Net?
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Jun 30, 2010
Is there any way i can retrieve MAC Address when Network Adapter is disabled in .net?
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Aug 30, 2011
am trying to get the IP address of all of the computers on a network. I know how to fetch the names of the computers on the network but I need to fetch the IP address to. I have a listview control with 2 columns 1 for the name of the computer (1st) and another column for the IP addres (2nd). I have the code so can the IP address be displayed in column 2
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
ListView1.Items.Clear()
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Mar 28, 2010
my first question on this board. I'm creating a media player(Like so many others). I try playing files over my network. When I pass this address "M:songssome artistsome song.mp3" to the windows media player control it actually opens "\ServerMEDIAsome artistsome song.mp3". But when my program checks if it is playing the correct song it thinks it is not, because the strings aren't equal. Is there a way in VB to get the network address of a mapped network drive? I can already see that it is a network drive but not wich address it points to.
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Aug 29, 2009
how i can go about getting basic network information such as the ip address gateway etc
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Oct 22, 2009
Im trying to Get the mac of the local computer(s) on a network and Enable/Disable the Connectiong adapter that is UP (In use), i know i can do this with the system as it stands and for a while i've used a *.bat file to do this for me but not i want a more elabrate way of doing it using a program i make for this, i will also be making it Control other computers remote on my network the same with a simple server side, in the future!, i just need it to Work on the local computer, I've read up about diffrent ways of doing this, like Getting the MAC via Registry like so:
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