How to get the Hostname or Computer name of a Device? 1

[paulk29]

Hi Guys,
I have been given a Project to get all the names of the Devices ( PCs, Servers, Routers etc. ) connected to Our Lan Switches. On the switch I can get a list of MAC addresses via the arp table but I dont know how to get the host names of these devices....
Can anyone suggest a method or some piece of software that might help?
Thanks a million
Paul

Paul Kilcoyne B eng. CCNA

 

[criticalUpdate]

you can try downloading network supervisor from 3com.

or search for the freeware ping sweep programs many will do that.

one thing that is nice is it enumerates wheter it's a printer, router, workstation etc... but putting it into a list format I don't remember if it does but better than doing a dump of arp...


Jeff

 

[paulk29]

Jeff,
thanks for that, I did a search on google for a ping sweeper and was overwhelmed with results. Would you know a specific program at all?
Thanks again
Paul

Paul Kilcoyne B eng. CCNA