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Re: Network discovery tools
From: sgorman1 () gmu edu
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 12:28:06 -0400
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 <booloo () ucsc edu> 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 farasnetwork discovery goes, would have to be the discovery engineinsideNetdisco (http://www.netdisco.org). This tool is fairly Cisco-centric,but Max has put a lot of work into a tool for folks who aretired ofCiscoWorks 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.
Current thread:
- Network discovery tools sgorman1 (May 06)
- Re: Network discovery tools John L Lee (May 06)
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- RE: Network discovery tools Brian Wilson (May 06)
- Re: Network discovery tools Mark Boolootian (May 06)
- Re: Network discovery tools sgorman1 (May 06)
- Re: Network discovery tools Mark Boolootian (May 06)