Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Kai Zhu

Hua Li

Bin Zhou

Ping Huang

Haiyan Wang

Shusheng Liu

Embodiments of this application disclose a device identification method and a related apparatus, to reduce costs of identifying whether a device that accesses a network is an AP device. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: when a type of the device that accesses the network needs to be identified, obtaining a MAC address of the access device, and obtaining a MAC address of a Wi-Fi hotspot around a network access device; and then comparing the MAC address of the access device with the MAC address of the Wi-Fi hotspot, and determining, if the MAC address of the access device and the MAC address of the Wi-Fi hotspot belong to a same address segment, that the access device is an AP device.

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Dongguan, China

Kai Zhu