I’ve installed Glasswire on both my laptop and desktop, and I noticed something very interesting on my network. The desktop, a Dell XPS 18, turned out to be one of 2 Hon Hai devices on my network. As the laptop is also a Dell device, I tried referencing its MAC Address against the other Hon Hai device. What I discovered is that the laptop’s MAC Address is not appearing on the list of connected devices on either installation of Glasswire. Both are pulling up the same 7 devices: the router, my phone, my XBox One, my printer, and the desktop being the devices I’ve identified, and then the Hon Hai device and an Apple device.
I also have the “Who’s On My Wifi” mobile app on my phone. That app is detecting 8 devices on the network, matching the aforementioned 7, and then the 8th was mysteriously unlabeled, which is abnormal for that program, however, that MAC address matched my laptop… Also, a MAC vendor lookup returned a “Not Found” message for the address (A6-A0-2E-85-AB-41).
Additionally, using the arp -a command on both computers, I got a list of 7 dynamic devices on each, with 1 matching the router, 101 the phone, 102 the unidentified Hon Hai device, 103 the unidentified Apple device, 108 the XBox, 109 the printer, and then 106 appearing on the desktop and matching the laptop, while 111 appeared on the laptop and matched the desktop.
Is it at all possible that the unidentified Hon Hai device is the laptop? I think it’s highly unlikely, given the arp -a result, but I figured I’d ask. Hopefully somebody might have some insight regarding this.