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The Network Multimeter will presents name information wherever available and uses different data sources for extracting name information for network devices (and their IP addresses). Names are often announced by the devices itself (via DHCP or NetBIOS), or are part of the network infrastructure (via DNS or HTTP host names).

All information a gathered during runtime and shown for each IP address to make it possible to identify the actual system behind.

Depending on the network setup, the same IP can be assigned to different devices over time. The Allegro Network Multimeter will shown as much name information as possible even if such information is outdated. This means that it can happen that a name is shown for an IP address that actually belonged to a different device. This is usually not a problem since new device should announce their name so that the internal name database will be up to date again.