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From: Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:22:41 -0600
Let me ask all of you a fairly generic question that should garner lots of different ideas. Let us say that you have gone to work for a new company as a network admin. It is a fairly complex network with multiple routers, switches and firewalls (a firewall for every router, let's say). The current network team has no formal training and have done all of their learning on the job, following a contracting company who was paid to initially setup the network. Okay, so how would you go about mapping out this network? You don't have the understanding of devices by name yet, and each device is likely to have 20 interfaces on it, with 20 IPs for 20 networks! You live on a "management network", but it's only "management" because it's a subnet which has been given telnet access to all of the devices on the network - in other words, scanning with your usual tool (LAN MapShot from Fluke - in my case, because it CAN start a pretty good network diagram directly in Visio) from your "management" network won't show you anything than it will from any other subnet. Follow what I mean? Ideas? Pretend the network is yours and you're free to change anything you want - where would you start? _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- scanning... Brian Loe (Nov 02)
- RE: scanning... Paul Melson (Nov 02)
- Re: scanning... Brian Loe (Nov 02)
- RE: scanning... Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr (Nov 04)
- Re: scanning... Paul D. Robertson (Nov 06)
- Re: scanning... Jim MacLeod (Nov 06)
- Re: scanning... Oddbjørn Steffensen (Nov 10)
- Re: scanning... Carric Dooley (Nov 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: scanning... Hile . William (Nov 02)
- Re: scanning... Julian M D (Nov 04)
- Re: scanning... Brian Loe (Nov 04)
- Re: scanning... Julian M D (Nov 04)
(Thread continues...)
- RE: scanning... Paul Melson (Nov 02)