I am interested in a specialty part that should be easy to make. The problem with patch cables is that they can be unplugged. I have Internet connected lines going to servers where the lines themselves are filtered by those servers. If the cables are unplugged, the servers are effectively bypassed. I want an obnoxious alarm that I can put inside the steel lockbox, one for each patch cable. If you unplug one of these patch cables, the alarm goes off. Better yet, an alarm goes off and no transmission through the patch cable is allowed until it is plugged back into the appropriate ethernet card. So effectively, I want to detect the MAC address and link status. Unplug the patch cable, the alarm sounds. Plug the cable into the wrong computer, the alarm continues. I want this to be as loud as a smoke detector.
Does anyone make a 10/100 ethernet switch with an alarm based on MAC address feature? It should be easy to make a device equipped with an alarm and an AC connection that detects disconnect, but detecting a foreign computer plugged in is trickier. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
