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On Oct 15, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Colin Alston wrote: 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?
Maybe there should be something (I mean like, someone should come up with a standard :P) to trace switches in a path
A coworker of mine has written script to ask Rapid-STP speaking switches about their current topology and builds a graph again in gnuplot format. A more challenging approach would be to scrape the mac forwarding tables and stitch things together. This would have to be done per-vlan. I think this approach (or similar) might be done by Openview's L2 featureset. Dale -- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin / WiscNet http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder
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