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A project log for Raspberry Pi MAC/IP Monitor

A Raspberry Pi network monitor, specifically an appliance that watches for new MACs, and IP addresses.

staticdet5staticdet5 03/18/2016 at 22:430 Comments

OK, I've finalized the beta for the stand-alone network query portion of the project. Right now, running "sudo python initialtest.py" will run the network scanner. It will spit back MAC's, hostnames (if found), and IP's. It will save these items to a "previously seen" file. You can then run the "checkFile.py" to give your own names to the MAC addresses. If you then run the initialtest.py program again (you gotta use "sudo python etc.etc.etc", not sure why), it will recognize the previously seen MAC's, and give you their given names and IP's.

Next step is to port this over to my newer project, a Pi based sensor network (https://hackaday.io/project/9754-raspberry-pi-sensor-network). The Network Monitor project is going to be rolled into that one as a sensor, giving you near real-time data on your network.

The new code is up and available at GitHub: https://github.com/StaticDet5/DET5PiNetworkMonitor

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