On 15 Oct 2008, at 17:52, Colin Alston wrote:
On 2008/10/15 06:29 PM Bill Woodcock wrote:
InterMapper. http://dartware.com/network_monitoring_products/ intermapper/index.html -Bill
Whoa, quite a serious looking piece of software. Will check it out.
Was kinda hoping to write my own software though, but perhaps I can craftily learn something from it :)
If you have SNMP access pull:- 1) Is it a bridge or a router? 2) ARP Table 3) MAC forwarding table 4) Interfaces with MAC and IP addresses 5) Netmasks from each such router or bridge in the network. Use the information from one to help you discover the others recursively. Have a termination condition that stops this process walking off your network and attempting to discover the whole Internet. That's enough to figure out both logical and physical topology. Without SNMP (or similar) access it's nigh impossible to figure out. If you only have access to a subset of the routers and bridges in the network you MAY have enough to figure out the topology - 50% is enough if it's the right 50%. Ian