[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[Dylan]

On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:37, abower at thebowery.co.uk wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:01:46AM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > > Many switches try to get an ip address by dhcp, have you tried setting
> > > up a dhcp server?
> >
> > There is no mention of that capability in the manual I downloaded (after
> > a half day's hunt) so No, haven't tried it.
>
> tcpdump when you power on the switch, that would let you know if they asked
> anything, or as suggested earlier use arp watch. Once you have the mac
> address you are home and dry all you need to do then is add a static arp
> entry and ip address 

That sounds interesting - where and how do I do that?

Dylan

> then telnet to the switch.
>
> Adam
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