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Looks like a great project. I'm going to try to deploy this in our 3000+ network device campus network and see how well it performs. Have you ever considered implementing a syslog server component or a trap receiver component that would allow the database to do immediate updates on devices that are plugged into switches that are configured to notify whenever a new mac address is seen in the table? We're currently working on building this functionality into our current VERY EXPENSIVE network monitoring software, but it has proven to be problematic. I think if there were some way to get immediate updates (through syslog or snmp traps) when they were available but still continuously poll to keep the status of everything current and to clean up for any missed traps or messages, this would be a perfect solution.
Brett,
Thanks for checking this out, I hope you all can benefit from it. If you run in to any problems at all or just have some feedback, please post it on the forum and I'll do my best to work things out for you.
As far as SNMP or syslog, I have definitely thought about this. At one time, I tried to get an SNMP trap receiver going but didn't have any luck with it and ran in to MIB problems. I definitely think it would benefit the program though and would like to get this going.
If you figure out how to get the switch, port and mac from the switches somehow, it's extremely easy to get that data in the database in real-time. Please let me know if you figure out how to get this for your other project, because it would make things almost perfect ;)
Jonathan