Re: ip of unknown origin - solved!

Guido van Rooij wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:14:13PM -0500, Steven Miller wrote:
>
>>it turns out that it's my hub doing all the talking pinging the gateway.
>>It's a Networth snap16 hub/repeater. I never would have thought to check
>>it. It has a serial port DB9 but i've had no luck getting it to talk.
>>Networth was bought by compaq and I think they burned all the manuals
>>and rebranded it netelligent. I changed my netmask on one of my machines
>>to 255.255.255.0 and I could ping it. telnet did not work. Anyone have
>>any ideas on going about talking to a hub/repeater?
>
> I'd do an nmap scan to check out which open ports the hub has. It probably
> only has snmp.

You might also power-cycle the hub and watch for DHCP requests; you may have a
chance to configure its address/netmask at reboot time. Run snmpwalk against
it too.

And really, the serial port should work. Most switches I've used that have
serial talk 9600/8N1 with hardware or no flow control.

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