16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
3:39 p.m.
Are you not using managed switches?
Certainly.
It takes me about 1 second to find exactly which device and which port a device is connected to. Once you know that; you have a pretty nice collection of statistics and log messages that usually tell you exactly what is wrong.
Here is where we differ. In my universe, finding which device and port has a particular MAC address is only a small part of L2 troubleshooting. In any case, I guess we'll find out in a decade or so how popular large flat L2 networks are going to be. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no