Elite Frontier

If the device is viewable in the Finder then you should be able to do the following:

ping devicename.local.

For example, let’s say you have a Network Attached Storage device named, nas

MyWorkstation:~ rdegraci$ ping nas.local.
PING nas.local (192.168.1.250): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.250: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.067 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.250: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=7.846 ms