Definitely familiar with Netdisco, but it's soooooo heavy and the fact that a package hasn't been released for it since 2004 makes it a pain to install (gotta collect everything out of CVS, etc...)
Plus it still hasn't been ported to MySQL, which is a pain for me. But, barring any other responses I may just go down that road.. -Dave -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Rodger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:07 AM To: David Temkin Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MAC/ARP tracking? On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, David Temkin wrote: > What tools to you guys generally use for MAC/ARP tracking on Foundry > devices? Most of the tools I've used in the past don't support > Foundry (mostly Vendor C) and haven't had much luck thus far. Have a look at netdisco (www.netdisco.org). Although originally written from a cisco-centric perspective, it works well with Foundry kit, and many other vendors - most of the SNMP calls that it uses are just MIB-II. It uses CDP to determine topology information. There is some (slightly broken - I added it!) support in there for FDP - which works OK as long as you don't use FDP with CDP emulation as well, cos it then discovers links twice. :) Once it learns (or has been told about) the topology, it identifies all the L2 and L3 devices. It then regularly pulls the arp (IP <> mac) info from the L3 devices, and the MAC<>port info from the L2 devices, and stores it all in a SQL database. Various tools to search, to enable/disable ports etc etc. Bruce. > > -- Bruce Rodger |Bruce.Rodger at strath.ac.uk PGP key available Network Manager, IT Services |http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/People/bruce.html The University of Strathclyde | +44 (0)141 548 3300 Glasgow G4 0LN, Scotland. | Fax 553 4100
