Unidentified mac address ,can you ping it ?

[anotherwindowsuser]

Hi

Dad says whilst going on a clean out of the multiple devices registered to the router he found one that had uploaded a lot of data to the Internet. He didn't have an ip address but I have wondered if we see it again can we ping it either in Windows or Linux to see what the mysterious device is? If so what's the command?

 

[Neemobeer]

You can't ping mac addresses, that's layer two networking ping (ICMP) is layer three. You can upload the MAC in a OUI look up tool and ID the manufacturer. The OUI is the first half of the MAC. Wireshark · OUI Lookup Tool

 

[anotherwindowsuser]

Thanks that's interesting.