MACs will provide manufacturers (look for OUI tables using Google), though they will not provide model information. Keep in mind network devices exist at later 2 that are not manageable and may not have a MAC address.
If you can identify from say a switch and you see multiple MAC addresses on a particular port it may indicate that there is another switch including a non manageable hub on that port. I suggest reading up on SNMP as another post suggested, MIB2, and how to determine the private (if any OID trees exist). Cheers, Frank Pikelner On 5/26/05 1:38 PM, "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there anything out there that would allow to >> identify a network device as a (router, switch, >> firewall etc)? > > > If you can obtain the device's MAC address, you should be able to determine > it's manufacturer and possibly model. > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
