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I am making a Device Discovery windows application in C#. Is this possible to know the device type if I have MAC address or IP address?
device type means either it is computer or router or mobile or any other device?
Note: HostName entry is not useful for it because Host Name is defined by User. for example i may assign “Nokia N70” name to my computer.
Thanks in anticipation.
You can get the manufacturer from the MAC address. In order to get any more information you’d need to do a port scan to do a ‘fingerprint’ of the device in question.
Application such as NMAP use this approach.