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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Network topology [Solved]
On 2008/10/15 06:29 PM Colin Alston wrote: Is there any kind of cunning trick to detect standard layer2 switches along a path without stuff like STP? Apparently there isn't. Lots of people mentioned other tools, the problem there is they have one thing in common which is polling SNMP. I think it scales badly in general. I was hoping to find a more intelligent way of, I guess, doing an ARP/MAC based traceroute by checking LLC 802.2 headers or something. Yes, it might have been easier if I hoped for it to rain money :) Maybe there should be something (I mean like, someone should come up with a standard :P) to trace switches in a path... Problem is I think even then the simple devices won't bother to support it.
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