[Gllug] OT: Switch

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:36:00AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Neil Fryer writes:
> 
> >And I dreaming here, and do I have to get on a train and go there,
> >or is there a way to do this, or some software that I can use?
> 
> Presumably you have a vague clue about the possible subnets that
> they're likely to be on? If so, try a broadcast ping. If that
> doesn't work, try something more sophisticated like nmap. Bear
> in mind that not all switches will even have an IP address...

Possibly ettercap would be usefull here too, as it does discovery so may
pick up on the switch.

Else if you have access to the other switches and the new switch is
connected to these you may be able to do it by an rmon port or getting a
listing of all the mac addresses, then try to match these up using
ettercap.  Any missing ones may be the new switches and you may be able
to activate them using rarp - (though I may be thinking of really old
print servers here...) 

Paul

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