[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[Peter Ball]

Have you opened them up and looked inside the cases ?

On 19 Jul 2003 at 22:28, Dylan wrote:

> On Saturday 19 July 2003 22:15, abower at thebowery.co.uk wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The manual has tantalising descriptions of a web interface, but I've
> yet to see it :(( And no, there's no MAC or IP address written on
> them. You can be damn sure there will be when I'm thru tho!
> 
> Dylan
> 
> >
> > Adam
> > --
> > jabberid = quinophex at jabber.earth.li
> > AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
> 
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