On Tuesday 30 May 2006 09:53, Stefán István wrote: > We have a small network with two 24 port switches. We assign ip > address to clients by dhcp based on the clients mac address, and have > a pool of addresses for guest notebooks. My problem is that if someone > plugs a notebook into the network and gets an ip then I can't find out > the location of the machine. Is it possible to get the information > that in which port of the switch is the notebook connected to?
That depends on the capabilities of the switch. For example, many 3Com's have a http-based management interface that permit monitoring each single ethernet port; among the various info, you can see the MAC address(es) of the station(s) connected to the port(s). Other models have even more sophisticated management functions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
