[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[David Irvine]

On Sat, 2003-07-19 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)?
> >an/listinfo/gllug
> 

Many switches try to get an ip address by dhcp, have you tried setting
up a dhcp server?

David





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