SOLVED: all devices hooked up to my router copied to a CSV log file

[traupmann]

Basically, all devices hook up to my router, their MAC address, type of device, time
Comma separated values to drop into Excel.
Polling could be done at intervals requested 1 min, 5 min, ??, 1 hr, etc.
Any more would be great.

Great for finding late night intruders

[skwire]

Hi, traupmann, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.  Regarding your request, what are you expecting to be polled?  Your router?  The network itself?  Keep in mind that most (all?) home-style routers are not designed to be polled for their data.

[traupmann]

Precisely.  One would think that the local network could be polled, but I am unaware of the difficulty.  My idea is to have a program that would poll the range of addresses the router addresses locally and see what is connected.  Is this rather variable throughout the router world? 

[4wd]

SoftPerfect Network Scanner

C:\> netscan.exe /hide /auto:"c:\desktop\result.csv"

As it says right in the docs

Just add it as a scheduled task to Windows.

[Stoic Joker]

What logging options does you router have? Many can report various events to a syslog server ... So if you syslog DHCP events (assuming your router handles DHCP), that should catch most network visitors.

[traupmann]

Well, thank all of you for your insights. 

The router log should be capable of being manipulated into what I am looking for. 

[skwire]

traupmann, would you like this thread marked as solved or did you still need further help with your request?

[traupmann]

Mark this baby solved, I wish life had this simple of answers in every case!