I am trying to figure out what devices are online and offline in our LAN. I've seen many programs doing a kind of graphical network overview, presenting LAN IP and MAC addresses. I would like to know if and how those (ARP?) information can be pulled from C#/.NET ?
Any sample code snippets/links would be appreciated.
If you know which devices are out there you can use the Ping Class. This will allow you to at least fill up the ARP table. You can always execute ARP -a and parse the output if you have to. Here is also a link that shows how to pinvoke to call GetIpNetTable. I have included examples below of Ping Class and how to access the ARP table using the GetIpNetTable.
This is an example for the Ping Class
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Text;
namespace Examples.System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingTest
{
public class PingExample
{
// args[0] can be an IPaddress or host name.
public static void Main (string[] args)
{
Ping pingSender = new Ping ();
PingOptions options = new PingOptions ();
// Use the default Ttl value which is 128,
// but change the fragmentation behavior.
options.DontFragment = true;
// Create a buffer of 32 bytes of data to be transmitted.
string data = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";
byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes (data);
int timeout = 120;
PingReply reply = pingSender.Send (args[0], timeout, buffer, options);
if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
{
Console.WriteLine ("Address: {0}", reply.Address.ToString ());
Console.WriteLine ("RoundTrip time: {0}", reply.RoundtripTime);
Console.WriteLine ("Time to live: {0}", reply.Options.Ttl);
Console.WriteLine ("Don't fragment: {0}", reply.Options.DontFragment);
Console.WriteLine ("Buffer size: {0}", reply.Buffer.Length);
}
}
}
}
This is an example of the GetIpNetTable.
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Net;
namespace GetIpNetTable
{
class Program
{
// The max number of physical addresses.
const int MAXLEN_PHYSADDR = 8;
// Define the MIB_IPNETROW structure.
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
struct MIB_IPNETROW
{
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
public int dwIndex;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
public int dwPhysAddrLen;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac0;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac1;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac2;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac3;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac4;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac5;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac6;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U1)]
public byte mac7;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
public int dwAddr;
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
public int dwType;
}
// Declare the GetIpNetTable function.
[DllImport("IpHlpApi.dll")]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
static extern int GetIpNetTable(
IntPtr pIpNetTable,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
ref int pdwSize,
bool bOrder);
// The insufficient buffer error.
const int ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER = 122;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// The number of bytes needed.
int bytesNeeded = 0;
// The result from the API call.
int result = GetIpNetTable(IntPtr.Zero, ref bytesNeeded, false);
// Call the function, expecting an insufficient buffer.
if (result != ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER)
{
// Throw an exception.
throw new Win32Exception(result);
}
// Allocate the memory, do it in a try/finally block, to ensure
// that it is released.
IntPtr buffer = IntPtr.Zero;
// Try/finally.
try
{
// Allocate the memory.
buffer = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(bytesNeeded);
// Make the call again. If it did not succeed, then
// raise an error.
result = GetIpNetTable(buffer, ref bytesNeeded, false);
// If the result is not 0 (no error), then throw an exception.
if (result != 0)
{
// Throw an exception.
throw new Win32Exception(result);
}
// Now we have the buffer, we have to marshal it. We can read
// the first 4 bytes to get the length of the buffer.
int entries = Marshal.ReadInt32(buffer);
// Increment the memory pointer by the size of the int.
IntPtr currentBuffer = new IntPtr(buffer.ToInt64() +
Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(int)));
// Allocate an array of entries.
MIB_IPNETROW[] table = new MIB_IPNETROW[entries];
// Cycle through the entries.
for (int index = 0; index < entries; index++)
{
// Call PtrToStructure, getting the structure information.
table[index] = (MIB_IPNETROW) Marshal.PtrToStructure(new
IntPtr(currentBuffer.ToInt64() + (index *
Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(MIB_IPNETROW)))), typeof(MIB_IPNETROW));
}
for (int index = 0; index < entries; index++)
{
IPAddress ip=new IPAddress(table[index].dwAddr);
Console.Write("IP:"+ip.ToString()+"\t\tMAC:");
byte b;
b=table[index].mac0;
if ( b < 0x10)
{
Console.Write("0");
}
else
{
Console.Write("");
}
Console.Write(b.ToString("X"));
b=table[index].mac1;
if ( b < 0x10)
{
Console.Write("-0");
}
else
{
Console.Write("-");
}
Console.Write(b.ToString("X"));
b=table[index].mac2;
if ( b < 0x10)
{
Console.Write("-0");
}
else
{
Console.Write("-");
}
Console.Write(b.ToString("X"));
b=table[index].mac3;
if ( b < 0x10)
{
Console.Write("-0");
}
else
{
Console.Write("-");
}
Console.Write(b.ToString("X"));
b=table[index].mac4;
if ( b < 0x10)
{
Console.Write("-0");
}
else
{
Console.Write("-");
}
Console.Write(b.ToString("X"));
b=table[index].mac5;
if ( b < 0x10)
{
Console.Write("-0");
}
else
{
Console.Write("-");
}
Console.Write(b.ToString("X"));
Console.WriteLine();
}
}
finally
{
// Release the memory.
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(buffer);
}
}
}
}
Hopefully you are trying to get the MAC Addresses from a IP Addresses and not the other way around.
Here is a link of a guy's example:
I have not tried it, let us know how it works.