[c-nsp] Identifying device(s) connected to cisco L2-only switch

[Marko Milivojevic]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 20:11, Tomas Daniska <tomas at soitron.com> wrote:
> Wrong. There are appliances/applications that are quiet enough not to populate (or timeout) the mac tables, just sittin' there and receiving traffic. And even though there is no mac entry for that address, the switch simply floods the traffic (by default... unless you configure block-unknown-unicast) to all ports, including the one with the quiet black box

I stand corrected about the listen-only device. I must admit it didn't
cross my mind :-).

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