How do i get the IP of my switch?

[flood]

I have a managed switch that I can telnet into.... but I forgot what i assigned its IP to. Is there a way I can ping every single IP and see what responds? right now I only have 2 computers on the switch... when I tracert the other computer, the switch doesnt show up.

 

[Buddhist]

ygpm flood5.

 

[Garion]

Try WSPing ProPack from Ipswitch. It's got a "scan range" that will ping all the IP's in a subnet. That should find it for you. Or you can just write a little batch file to do it, or something...

- G

 

[flood]

WSPing didnt do the trick :-/

 

[Damaged]

Do you telnet into by name? Then lookup the name. If you telnet into it by IP I'm gonna have to laugh a little.

If you're on a Windows box you can just ping it by name and it should resolve the IP for you.

Finally, it this isn't what you're after then tell us what kind of switch it is.

[edit]Ack! Nevermind. I miss understood what your wrote when you said you can telnet into, meaning it's possible for you to do so, but that you forgot the IP so you can't.[/edit]

Yeah, console in and you can get it that way.

 

[goldboyd]

Can you console into it? YOu can with most managed switches and from there you can get the ip rather easily.

 

[flood]

heh.. problem is that I cant console into it for some reason. It might be the cable, or my hyperterminal settings.

 

[Damaged]

What kind of switch is it? If it's a Baystack/Nortel than try ctrl+c for the main menu. Other than that it's pretty standard: 8,N,1,9600, no flow control. Some of the older Baystacks were ctrl+y or something like that. I can't recall right now and I usually just try ctrl+ a bunch of stuff until the menu comes up.

 

[flood]

its an smc...
Tigerswitch 6508TF

 

[Damaged]

You need a null modem cable. God I hate it when they do that! You can either buy a null modem cable or you can buy a null modem adaptor.