WOW -- that looks great -- Thank you very very much I will be trying it shortly
TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 > -----Original Message----- > From: Heiko Wundram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:50 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed > > Am Dienstag, 14. März 2006 18:08 schrieb Timothy A. Holmes: > > Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network > > traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches > > have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make > > it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the > > noise. > > Save the following script as floodping.sh, and try it, you should be able > to > notice the traffic from your regular traffic: > > #!/bin/sh > ifconfig $1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > while true > do > ping -f -w $2 -b 10.0.0.255 > sleep $2 > done > > ./floodping.sh eth0 5 > > would mean that it does five seconds of intensive traffic (which has > packets > going to the switch in the order of <20ms or so, depending on your laptop, > and the lamp should blink very frequently), then does five seconds of data > sleep, which should be almost completely quiet on the switch (except for > that > occasional broadcast packet from another computer directed at yours). > > Be sure to use a network that isn't on your local net for testing, as my > network is 192.*, I've used 10.* in the example. If you use a network > that's > regularily used on your network, you might get problems discerning the > sleep > phase, as the arp address of your laptop propagates to all other endpoints > on > your net due to the use of a regular network, and this might mean a lot of > ARP queries, depending on your network size. > > I've used a technique like this to check the cabling in a building, and it > worked just fine. > > HTH! > > -- > --- Heiko. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
