Get list of devices on windows ad hoc network

Question

I was wondering if there was a command to get a list of all the devices connected to an ad-hoc network that I host from my laptop.

This far I've just been looking up the device ip with ipconfig or similar from the device itself, but I want to connect a device which I can only access through SSH for a presentation I'm making.

Is there a command or utility for seeing what devices are connected to my ad-hoc netowork?

(I'm on Windows 8)

Solution

After some more searching I found that I could use arp -a to list all the known devices through different network connections that I had.

Here's how it worked:

• Start the hostednetwork on Windows through netsh wlan start hostednetwork
• Find out what your IP address is through ipconfig or through the network and sharing center
• Type arp -a to get a list of all your connections and known devices
• Find the interface with the IP you found earlier
• Now you'll have a list of known devices on that interface, which should be good enough.

Comments

[RangerMauve]

Yeah, I was hoping that I would have some way to see them via netsh or something, but I guess I'm going to have to make a program to have them phone home when they connect since they don't seem to be discoverable.