[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[Dylan]

On Sunday 20 July 2003 00:39, David Irvine wrote:
> 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?

There is no mention of that capability in the manual I downloaded (after a 
half day's hunt) so No, haven't tried it.

Dylan

>
> David

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