[Gllug] Establishing the IP of a switch

[Pete Ryland]

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)?

You could do a broadcast ping, but you'd still have to try each possible
subnet.

Pete

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