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On Tuesday 30 May 2006 09:53, Stefán István wrote: |
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> We have a small network with two 24 port switches. We assign ip |
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> address to clients by dhcp based on the clients mac address, and have |
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> a pool of addresses for guest notebooks. My problem is that if someone |
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> plugs a notebook into the network and gets an ip then I can't find out |
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> the location of the machine. Is it possible to get the information |
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> that in which port of the switch is the notebook connected to? |
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That depends on the capabilities of the switch. For example, many 3Com's |
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have a http-based management interface that permit monitoring each |
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single ethernet port; among the various info, you can see the MAC |
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address(es) of the station(s) connected to the port(s). |
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Other models have even more sophisticated management functions. |
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