Solved: how to find ip --switching

tahir1234 · ‎12-19-2009

Hi seniors,

I am new in networking field and studying Cisco stuff on daily basis. Questions are -

1- How to know the port of the device if IP is know but MAC is unknow ?

2- Say there are 8 switches attached in a stack, and one PC is attached to a switch , only IP is know, how to know what is that particular switch the PC is attached to ?

Thanks you all.

Tahir.

Jon Marshall · ‎12-19-2009

tahir1234 wrote:

Hi seniors,

I am new in networking field and studying Cisco stuff on daily basis. Questions are -

1- How to know the port of the device if IP is know but MAC is unknow ?

2- Say there are 8 switches attached in a stack, and one PC is attached to a switch , only IP is know, how to know what is that particular switch the PC is attached to ?

Thanks you all.

Tahir.

Tahir

If you only know the IP then you need to go to the L3 device ie. router or L3 switch that is the default-gateway for the client. Then

1) "sh arp | include " will give you the mac-address

then log onto one of the switches and

2) "sh cam "

the result will either be the port the device is attached to or it may be a trunk port. If it is a trunk port then you will need to find out the switch on the other end of the trunk link, log onto that switch and then repeat step 2.

You can use CDP to find details of device attached via trunk ie.

sh cdp neigh detail

Jon

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Jon Marshall · ‎12-19-2009

tahir1234 wrote:

Hi seniors,

I am new in networking field and studying Cisco stuff on daily basis. Questions are -

1- How to know the port of the device if IP is know but MAC is unknow ?

2- Say there are 8 switches attached in a stack, and one PC is attached to a switch , only IP is know, how to know what is that particular switch the PC is attached to ?

Thanks you all.

Tahir.

Tahir

If you only know the IP then you need to go to the L3 device ie. router or L3 switch that is the default-gateway for the client. Then

1) "sh arp | include " will give you the mac-address

then log onto one of the switches and

2) "sh cam "

the result will either be the port the device is attached to or it may be a trunk port. If it is a trunk port then you will need to find out the switch on the other end of the trunk link, log onto that switch and then repeat step 2.

You can use CDP to find details of device attached via trunk ie.

sh cdp neigh detail

Jon

tahir1234 · ‎12-19-2009

Jon thanks for reply.

One think I forgot to ask in previous post,

-for the same scenarious , what would if switches are CATOS running on them,,

Thanks again.

Ganesh Hariharan · ‎12-19-2009

Hi,

login into switch then issue a command show arp after wards with mac you can issue show mac-address | in specific mac .

Hope that helps

Regards

Ganesh.H

Reza Sharifi · ‎12-19-2009

Hello Tahir,

For Cat OS you use

sh cam

For native IOS you use

sh mac-address-table

HTH

Reza

tahir1234 · ‎12-19-2009

Good explainations.

Thanks for all.