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Thanks for the suggestions. The network ferret tools reports to do layer 2 discovery as well, maybe not so wishful thinking but I could be wrong - http://www.panix.com/~logikos/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Boolootian <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 6, 2004 11:59 am Subject: Re: Network discovery tools > > > > The best GPL tool that I've come across in a long while, as far > as > > network discovery goes, would have to be the discovery engine > inside > > Netdisco (http://www.netdisco.org). This tool is fairly Cisco- > centric, > > but Max has put a lot of work into a tool for folks who are > tired of > > CiscoWorks not working. > > netdisco does automated topology discovery for CDP-speaking devices > (where the C is Cisco and not Cabletron). That includes Cisco gear > and some HP stuff (at least the ProCurve line of switches - not sure > what else they have it in). netdisco will also do topology discovery > using Bay's discovery protocol (though this probably only exists in > old stuff and likely didn't make the cut in the move to Nortel). > There'ssome hope for using the work done by some guys at Bell Labs > to do the L2 > topology discovery relying on existing MIBs (primarily the BRIDGE > MIB),and there is proof-of-concept code, but that's mostly wishful > thinkingat this point. > >
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