Hey Greg,

You can get ethtools working on OSX via fink. I use fink to run a bunch of older X11 utilities that I can't run natively.

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-----Original Message----- From: Greg Whynott Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca Sender: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:51:12 To: discuss@studiosysadmins.comdiscuss@studiosysadmins.com Reply-To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] for you network guys

two other links that look like they would be useful to have around. They take the lldp/cdp info and threw a web page allow you to query/see where everything is.

https://trac.luffy.cx/wiremaps/ http://www.netdisco.org/

-g

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From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Greg Whynott [Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:08 PM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] for you network guys

I'm using it on Cisco and HP gear, mostly switches. I think this project covers CDP too. There is another lldpd project too, but it wouldn't compile on OS X as it was looking for ethtool libs which I believe are a linux only thing. It may be better for some as it supports most of the discovery protocals (CDP,FDP,SONMP(nortel),and EDP(extreme)). Since most gear and OS images support at least LLDP and CDP these days, it seemed enough. you can find it here: https://trac.luffy.cx/lldpd/

Next week i'm going to see if one of our windows developers can compile it. I'd like to see it running on all stations.

take care, greg

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From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Ken Spickler [ken.spickler@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:08 PM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] for you network guys

What kind of router are you using LLDP on?

IIRC, Foundry has 'fdp' (foundry discovery protocol), similar to cdp (cicso discovery protocol).

Ken Spickler Sent from iPhone. Srry for tpos.

On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Greg Whynott Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca wrote:

sure this is old news for most, but I've found this to be useful.

cisco has a layer 2 protocol that allows you to see end devices before line protocol comes up (typically IP) called CDP, LLDP is the open equivalent to it.

there is a project (one of a few i found) openlldp which will compile without issue on osx and linux (probably windows too).

anyway it allows you to see hosts on the other end of a link/port which can be useful when trying to answer the question "what is plugged into port 3/4 on that switch?". And you can do this without the other end being IP'd, or IP'd incorrectly, or misconfigured ( LACP to non LACP port for example). as long as the interface is up.

take care and have a great weekend, greg

see the output below, commands issued from one of our routers..

osx-gwhynott:~ gwhynott$ ssh core0 Password:

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• This is: CORE0. OICR.ON.CA *
• June 2009 *

COREROUTER>show lldp neighbors

Capability codes: (R) Router, (B) Bridge, (T) Telephone, (C) DOCSIS Cable Device (W) WLAN Access Point, (P) Repeater, (S) Station, (O) Other

Device ID Local Intf Hold-time Capability Port ID GFDCHPC Te6/2 120 B,R 3 GFDCHPC Te6/1 120 B,R 1 dist5 Te3/5 120 B 265 GFDC Te3/7 120 B,R 1 GFDC Te3/8 120 B,R 3 6SR_C1_SHAKEY Te5/5 120 B,R 49 sl-e1200 Gi5/1 120 GigabitEthernet 0/10 apc-sw0 Gi9/12 120 B 50 6thDIST Te3/6 120 B 1 6SR_CORE2_DUSTY Te5/4 120 B 241 osx-gwhynott Gi5/41 120 RS en0

Total entries displayed: 11

COREROUTER>show lldp neighbors gigabitEthernet 5/41 detail

Chassis id: 0017.f20a.ba72 Port id: en0 Port Description: System Name: osx-gwhynott.res.oicr.on.ca

System Description: QTSS/6.0.3 (Build/526.3; Platform/MacOSX; Release/Darwin Streaming Server; State/Development; )

Time remaining: 118 seconds System Capabilities: S,R Enabled Capabilities: Management Addresses: IP: 10.10.10.10 Auto Negotiation - supported, enabled Physical media capabilities: Other/unknown Symm Pause(FD) Symm, Asym Pause(FD) Media Attachment Unit type:

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Total entries displayed: 1

COREROUTER>

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