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MAC Address discovery is not discovering

It appears MAC address discovery is not working or I dont understand how it should work. I am trying to identify all devices on the LAN regardless of whether they have an IP address or are running TCP/IP. I have a computer booted to DOS, the NIC has a blinky light but MAC address discovery does not find it. Should it?? If the device must have an IP address then what is the difference between MAC discovery and ping sweep?

Regards,

Sam Wheat

PS I am using the eval version of the product.

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rknight

The Mac Address finder discovers MAC addresses by Pinging a Subnet and listening for ARP responses... The diference between it and Pingsweep is that you get the MAC address back...

It only detects IP interfaces.

Cheers
Ric Knight