On 2 Apr 2013, at 14:39, Phil Mayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > > I had a couple of queries about my recent post asking how we did this, which > surprised me; I thought it was a pretty tractable problem. We use a (very > simple) bespoke system, but I was under the impression most people used one > of the various open-source or commercial offerings (e.g NAV, Slaacer, and the > like). We use NAV, having largely Cisco equipment. > However - I then found I had trouble locating these in Google, perhaps > because I wasn't picking the right terms, but maybe they don't have good > Google Juice? NAV is at https://nav.uninett.no/. You can roll your own or use a Debian packaged system. > On that basis, what term(s) would people use to refer to systems that poll > the network to record which MAC adress is using what IP (IPv6, IPv4 > optional!) and what products would people suggest / are people using? Bonus > points for sensible handling of link-local addresses and subnets with >1 > router. Always just called it a network monitoring system. > [Bear in mind I don't need a product personally - we have in-house systems > that do this - and things like RADIUS and DHCP logs are not quite what I mean] > > Does anyone have suggestions for a good home that list could live, so it > could get decent search engine rankings? It was suggested to me that some > people consider lack of such monitoring a "blocker", so making these more > find-able would be a plus. That couldn't hurt :) Tim
