[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[Dylan]

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
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