Daniel Lopes wrote: > Ping a client you surely know should be connected to the switch. ARP > will take the part to find out the hardware address so the packet can be > delivered. If the switch is on it should find a hardware address and ARP > should put it in your ARP cache. It´s independet from ICMP blocks and > similar. So after trying to ping you should have an entry in your ARP > table which you can control with "arp" command. > > It seems that I didn't make myself quite clear ... I want to know if there is a way to find out if a switch is working ok or not. If there is something like a small device, that I plug into the switch, ant then if that device "reports in" ok, then I know the switch is working. Like on a router... if you want to know if a router is doing it's job, than you send an ICMP echo request to a host on the other side of the router. ME ----> ROUTER -----> testing host well, I want the same thing but on an inferior layer, on a switch. ME -----> SWITCH ----> testing device I want to know if thare can be such thing as a "testing device". I thought of an ethernet card, that i plug in the switch, power the card up, and then somehot arping the card, from witch I know the MAC. ... but i don't think it works just like that :(. Hope I was specific enough this time .... Thanks for the (possible) answers. Best regards, Radu. -- Radu Cugut mobile: +40 742 045686 web: http://rcugut.has.it _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
