From: Radu CUGUT <rcugut@gmail.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [LARTC] how can I monitor a (dumb) switch ?
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:24:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18ebe9d3050603012450c86c86@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51095.194.102.203.14.1117786690.squirrel@194.102.203.14>
Hello there,
Can anyone help me with a problem i have....
I have an ethernet LAN, made over dumb fast-ethernet switches
(10/100mbit) without management, so there is no IP for the switches.
What I want, if possible, is to find out if a switch is down or not.
It's like with routers... if you want to find out if a router is OK,
either you send ICMP directly to the router, or to a host "behind" the
router.
Is there any device, or ANY OTHER possibility that I can find out if a
switch is unplugged or broken. Users on my LAN aren't reliable (they
have firewalls, closed computers, etc.), so pinging users that are
linked to a switch to find out is out of the question.
I have got an ideea that if I take an ehernet card, and somehow manage
to put power in it, than I would have a device with MAC addres to
arping ... is this correct ?
MANY thanks in advance, and SORRY for being a bit out of topic.
Best regards,
Radu.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-03 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-03 8:18 [LARTC] how can I monitor a (dumb) switch ? cristian_dimache
2005-06-03 8:24 ` Radu CUGUT [this message]
2005-06-03 13:15 ` Daniel Lopes
2005-06-03 15:34 ` Dmytro O. Redchuk
2005-06-03 17:03 ` Jay Vosburgh
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