Given what little detail the OP posted, it seems unlikely that the MAC
address will be present on any switch he can examine.

Wireshark listening to a monitor/span port will allow him to pinpoint the IP
address that's talking on port 1733, though. That would certainly be
helpful.

Kurt

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:19, Kelsey, John <[email protected]> wrote:

> Depending on your type of network switch, you can do a show mac-address
> (on Cisco anyway) and it will tell you the switchport that the mac
> address is connected to.  You can track it down that way.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 15:08
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Finding a neddle in a haystack
>
>
> OK, maybe I'm a bit dense today, but I don't see Wireshark at
> portableapps.com ...  Got any pointers ?
>
>
>
> Erik Goldoff
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> Systems, Networks, & Security
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:43 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Finding a neddle in a haystack
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:37, Jim Majorowicz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The developer for one of my clients is trying to figure out what is
> > causing his app to crash on a regular basis.  He's begun to fixate on
> > a system I can't positively identify that connects via SQL on a
> > regular basis.  I suspect it's the hosted web server, but I don't have
>
> > to contact information for the hosting company, and the person with
> > that information is currently in China with a spotty connection and
> hasn't replied to my emails.
> >
> > I have the name of the host, and the MAC address but not the IP
> > address.  Is there any way to find the IP based on the MAC, so I can
> > say for sure "That's the Webhost?"
>
> You're going to have to describe the network a bit more before we can
> say too much about that.
>
> However, I'll say that Wireshark is your friend - especially the version
> you find at www.portableapps.com
>
> Kurt
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