Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes <at> mcaschool.net> writes: > > Hi Folks: > > I am getting ready to start a project here in the building to map the > physical infrastructure of our network (its been assembled kinda willy > nilly over the last 8 years or so). I am looking for a program to run > on my laptop that I can plug into a wall plate and it will cause the > port activity lights on the switch to blink distinctly so that I can > begin tracing plugs to ports. Due to budgetary constraints, open source > / freeware is very very preferable.
check out jffnms, it's in portage now and works with a very large array of routers, switches, snmp, and other devices/portocols. There is also an excellent installation/configuration page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html The docs are new, and there is a jffnms.org support group. I have yet to see, Javier fail to provide a monitoring solution for any sort of device you may have. As one that builds/noodles with all sorts of ethernet attached hardware, jffnms rules. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
