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by Steve Wiseman on December 7, 2012 · 4 comments

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I came across a free tool called Fing.

If you have ever forgotten the IP address of that wireless router in the corner, or quickly need the IP of one of your printers – this is the tool to do it.

I had a Xerox printer that had been moved from our old office. The interface for it was annoying, so I ran Fing on my PC and found it almost right away:

Fing Shows Xerox Printer

It continually cycles through a network discovery. It does this every 60 seconds.

During each cycle you get a concise output of all the devices seen from your computer:

Fing Network Discovery

What is nice about that is you can see the MAC addresses of computers across your network.

You can use that for the next feature – wake on LAN.

If you have computers or devices that support it, you can power them on using the WOL feature of Fing.

Just like this:

Fing sends WOL packet

Get your copy of Fing from here:

Fing Download

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Mike Dunkirk December 7, 2012 at 2:14 pm

Great find steve. Love these little utilities you always seem to find right when I need them.

2 Jennifer December 7, 2012 at 2:14 pm

Hi steve – any idea if this will work on Windows XP? I would like to run this one at home 🙂

3 Steve Wiseman December 7, 2012 at 2:15 pm

Looks like XP is supported…should work with no problem 😉

4 Brad Harris January 15, 2013 at 10:19 am

There is an android version of this app as well called FING. I use it every day. I can even scan services on each machine on the network which allows me to ftp / HTTP into various devices on the network. You can ping and tracert as well … all from your phone.

Here’s the link, if interested.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlook.android.fing&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5vdmVybG9vay5hbmRyb2lkLmZpbmciXQ..

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