[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[abower at thebowery.co.uk]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 05:00:02PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've got two ethernet (10Mb) switches which I've just excavated from my loft. 
> Unfortunately I have no idea what their admin IP addresses are!
> 
> Is there an 'easy' way to find out? Or is it a case of plugging them up to a 
> box and having a script ping every possible address (lots, of course since 
> they could be on 192.168.0.0 or 10.0.0.0)?

I assume they do fancy management stuff then? Anyhow do they have a mac address
written on them anywhere?

Adam
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