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Hi, |
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:24 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes" |
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<tholmes@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the |
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> physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy |
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> nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run |
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> on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the |
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> port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can |
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> begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open |
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> source / freeware is very very preferable. |
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Not sure about "distinctly" (that will certainly depend on the switch's |
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electronic and programmatic design), but - tada - you can usually cause |
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the traffic light on the switch to blink with network traffic ;-) |
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So broadcasting some UDP packages out into the wild should be |
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sufficient. Use e.g. netcat. OTOH, you might want to play with ethtool |
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and switch connection rates for short intervals. Usually switches have |
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a light indicator for the speed, too, so that should be easier to |
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distinct on a busy switch. Toggle this in a shell loop with a few |
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"sleep"s inserted... |
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-hwh |
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