[70262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network discovery tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Boolootian)
Thu May 6 12:49:36 2004
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:47:27 -0700
From: Mark Boolootian <booloo@ucsc.edu>
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> Thanks for the suggestions. The network ferret tools reports to
> do layer 2 discovery as well, maybe not so wishful thinking but
> I could be wrong -
>
> http://www.panix.com/~logikos/
Thanks for the pointer. HPOV claims their layer 2 discovery is independent
of vendor-proprietary technology. The wishful-thinking I referred to
was more about finding someone with enough cycles and perl chops that they
might attempt to integrate the Bell Labs stuff into netdisco (as opposed
to wishful-thinking that L2 discovery is possible without an L2 discovery
protocol, though I have to admit to having my doubts).
